I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.
NIKITA GILLSometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
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In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
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You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.
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Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.
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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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Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
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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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Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.
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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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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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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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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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I used to only pick up a pen for myself but now I pick one up for you too. Is there such a thing as an unselfish love poem? I don’t know, but I’m trying.
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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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You have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
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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 my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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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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