To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.’
NIKITA GILLBut I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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Even the day must let go of the sun and allow the light to disappear, so the darkness can live for a while. The only way out of grief is through it.
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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
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Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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To my inner child, I promise I am trying my best to heal from everything that hurt you. I promise I am trying to become the person you need me to be so we can both be whole.
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The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.
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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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Without heartache there are no lessons to gain.
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If he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts. You were meant to be loved as a whole.
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