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.
NIKITA GILLYou fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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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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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
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You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.
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And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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She didn’t just wait for someone to come and rescue her from her discontent and strife, instead she took matters into her own hands and empowered her own future, her own life.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.
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You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
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The greatest wish I have ever had is to create with words, what wizards cannot and what magic never has.
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The loneliest thing you can ever do is take very instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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You see, there can be no life without death.
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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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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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She is unpredictable, and unpredictable is another word for ‘threat’ when a woman wears it well.
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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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I am so hungry for someone to love me.
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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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