Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.
NIKITA GILLThe old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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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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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 with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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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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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
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Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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You are not his princess. You are your own queen.
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You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.
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Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge.
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