The bird building her home on your windowsill has every nest destroyed before. The spider that is delicately weaving a masterpiece has had every single thread broken before. And despite it all, they try again.
NIKITA GILLNothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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When I was a little girl, I had a friend and sometimes I wondered if he was born on the day the Titanic sank.
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Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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Somedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
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I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
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Forgiveness is easier to give to others than to yourself. But I am slowly learning.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?
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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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Maybe living your truth will not make you happy all the time, but it will make you happy every day.
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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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