In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
NIKITA GILLIf 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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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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Listen to me girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with a battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, queens cover before no man.
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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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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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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Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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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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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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You are not his princess; you are your own queen.
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When I was a little girl, I had a friend and sometimes I wondered if he was born on the day the Titanic sank.
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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