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.
NIKITA GILLWhat if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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My Fairy Godmother is my heart sustaining me.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
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So when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
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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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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
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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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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.
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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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A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
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Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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What I have spent in mourning is the price I have paid for my healing.
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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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How your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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