What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
NIKITA GILLI 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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I hope you never doubt again that even when you are in pain, that you are a miracle, that every part of you is incredible.
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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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That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
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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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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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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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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
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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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Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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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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I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.
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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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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.
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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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