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 GILLNo one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone.
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I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.
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You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.
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These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.
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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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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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Without heartache there are no lessons to gain.
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate 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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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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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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