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.
NIKITA GILLYou 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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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment.
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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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Forgiveness is easier to give to others than to yourself. But I am slowly learning.
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Take this as your reminder. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear darkness, some wear wounds.
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I don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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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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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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A story is no small thing.
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