You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
NIKITA GILLSo 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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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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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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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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Anxious people are resorceful, they need to know how to keep the sea of panic at bay so they do not drown.
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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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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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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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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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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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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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You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.
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Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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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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The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
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All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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How your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
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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 am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
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