In human beings, a black hole is spending your energy loving someone who takes all of your love and gives back nothing in return.
NIKITA GILLIn human beings, a black hole is spending your energy loving someone who takes all of your love and gives back nothing in return.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
NIKITA GILLYou need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
NIKITA GILLGhosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
NIKITA GILLBurn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
NIKITA GILLBecome fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
NIKITA GILLGirlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
NIKITA GILLAnd they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
NIKITA GILLIt makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
NIKITA GILLSofter memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
NIKITA GILLThe river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
NIKITA GILLGirls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
NIKITA GILLShe is unpredictable, and unpredictable is another word for ‘threat’ when a woman wears it well.
NIKITA GILLYou 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 GILLAnd what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
NIKITA GILLGirls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
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