Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
NIKITA GILLWhen I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.
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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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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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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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I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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You see, there can be no life without death.
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I will not give up the flowers in my heart for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower hearted people.
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A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?
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Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.
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Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading wolves.
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Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.
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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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A story is no small thing.
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You are still the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.
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Listen to me girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with a battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, queens cover before no man.
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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
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My darling, he is just a boy. How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like you?
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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That growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly constantly moving and travelling without letting your pain tear you apart.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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