We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
NIKITA GILLSome loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Somedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
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There is a difference between holy and pure. Holy is also the way the anger boils inside our throats.
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There is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.
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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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Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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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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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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It’s how I learn there are a multitude of ways to say I love you. For so many you don’t have to use words at all.
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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.
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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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I’d like to think our love does return to us reincarnated in different human forms. That people might be temporary, but love is permanent and it just changes form.
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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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Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
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I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.
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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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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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It has taken me some time to learn that although karma exists, you can let your hatred go, not by destroying your own magic but by letting it grow.
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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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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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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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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There is an old saying that when you meet your soulmate, your heart will not palpitate. Your body will not grow hot. Instead, you will feel like suddenly, you understand everything, and the tranquility of a thousand moons will grow between you. That was how she felt when she saw him.
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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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