Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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You have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
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But the universe never promised you this would be easy. After all, you are the hero here.
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You are not his princess; you are your own queen.
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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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There are three versions of you. The one that smiles and laughs with others, the one that hides and cries alone, and the one that has the ability to achieve greatness.
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It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
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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 am so hungry for someone to love me.
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I had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.
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Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.
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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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Without heartache there are no lessons to gain.
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What I have spent in mourning is the price I have paid for my healing.
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You 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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We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
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A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
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Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.
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She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone.
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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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You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
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