Moustache Masterpieces and Bouffant Baublets

The place to find typographical quotes from the greatest men and women in the world.

[meanwhilepoetry]

The part of me that hated myself was murdered yesterday. The version of me that was unkind and cruel was destroyed years ago. I replaced my angry hard heart with a soft one and switched the part of my brain that hated anyone off. And the part of me that insisted on my killing myself? I strangled it with my bare hands for trying to suggest that I did not have a place in or beauty to give to this world. Yes, I have killed myself many times. But only the parts of myself that caused me damage, that caused others pain, that told me my life was not worth living. The universe made no mistake by creating me. And it made no mistake by creating you either. Kill the version of you that tries to tell you it has. You deserve every moment of the previous gift of life you have been given.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Do not allow him to consume you. If he does not call, go to sleep. If he does not message, put your phone away and have a fantastic day anyway. If he acts distant when you are with him and refuses to tell you what is wrong, don’t wait for him, go home and do something you love. If he tries to insinuate you do not need your friends now that you have him, spend more time with your friends. If he tries to teach you a lesson through the silent treatment, ignore him completely. If he plays with your feelings constantly, walk away from him. If he acts like your body is his entitlement when you are not ready, walk away from him. If he says terrible, unforgivable things and threatens to leave you after every argument, walk away from him. If he forbids you from doing anything you love, walk away from him. If he claims ownership of your accomplishments, walk away from him. If he demeans you or disrespects your being a girl and refuses to stop when you tell him it hurts, walk away from him. I cannot stress this enough, you live for yourself first. He is a secondary character in the story of your life. Do not allow him to turn you into a secondary character in your own book.

Nikita Gill, Advice to Teenage Girls Finding Their Way Through Love. (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Be careful of girls who love so deep, she will be the boil in your blood, she will haunt you in your sleep.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Recognise that there are people in this world who are going to use your trauma, your heartache to control you in an argument. If you are afraid of being abandoned, they will leave without telling you where they are going in the middle of you having your say in an argument. If you have been beaten or raped in your past, they will say you deserved it in an argument, just to cause you to break down. If you hate swearing and name calling in an argument they will swear at you and call you so many names, particularly those you hate, that you are shocked into silence because of traumatic memories. If they are in the wrong and they have been caught, they will point out your flaws and your damage and act like it was your fault this happened. Understand, it doesn’t matter if they are the nicest people in the world otherwise and have no idea that they are doing something wrong. It matters that there is a monster inside them that comes out in an argument. That is when people are their truest selves. In adversity. If they do ANY of these things, they are abusive. And you do not need nor deserve any more of that in your life, no matter how much anyone says you are ‘difficult’ or ‘hard to deal with’. You are not a burden. And your trauma is not a weapon someone else is allowed to use to stab you with.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

I am sorry someone loved you badly, and that they made you feel like you take up more space than you deserve. I am sorry they abandoned you when you need them the most and it has made you believe that love is an awful thing that hurts.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

And you hurt each other until you realise this. Just because you know how to make each other bleed does not mean you also know how to help each other heal.

Nikita Gill, When Love Turns Toxic (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

When they leave, take that space they vacated and turn it into something so beautiful, you do not miss their absence anymore. If they try to walk back through the door of your heart, remind them that they had chosen to leave, and tell them “You don’t live here anymore.”

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

People’s hearts are the most dangerous things to break. To protect themselves they build dragons out of wasted tears, and create entire wars made of heartache.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

I just wanted you to know that you still haunt me, from my heart right down to my bones.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

There was no poetry in her sadness, but there was incredible beauty in the way she carried her heartache.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

I wish someone had warned me when I was younger, now I stay up all night and weep; the ghosts of everything you have loved and lost come back to haunt you in your sleep.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

I wish someone had warned me when I was younger, now I stay up all night and weep; the ghosts of everything you have loved and lost come back to haunt you in your sleep.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

She drinks liquid gold from the sun to sing in a golden voice to the moon, girls like her will always spill light from their lips even when surrounded by utter darkness and gloom.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

On the days when the world is cruellest to you, I hope you have someone wraps you up in their arms, runs gentle fingers through your hair and speaks words full of strength and kindness to you.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

How easily you forget, we once belonged to each other. There are still the remains of a language between us, a language no one else but you and I speak. You may ignore me when we see each other on the street, but I will always know by looking at you, just how you feel.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Dare to love yourself in all the places others have been too afraid to love you.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Your existence needs validation from no one but your own soul. Destroy any voice inside of you that says otherwise.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)