But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
NIKITA GILLGirlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.
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Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment.
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Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.
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That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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Anxious people are resorceful, they need to know how to keep the sea of panic at bay so they do not drown.
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Even without him, you can bring down monsters. Believe me. You can still bring down monsters.
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Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
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The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?
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