The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
NIKITA GILLWe have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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There is a spell for almost anything and if there’s not a spell, there is at least a poem.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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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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We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
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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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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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There is a knowing in her, she hears them say, that makes her untamable. She has known since she was a child that she is observant in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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