You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
NIKITA GILLSurvival 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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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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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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Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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Learn it well. Wear your hair wild, embrace your anger and learn to wield it without fear as a sword against those who hurt you.
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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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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are.
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Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.
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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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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.
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