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.
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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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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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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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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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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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. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.
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All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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The greatest magic you have is the courage you go digging for, when your world falls apart, the light you still hold, when everything has grown dark.
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And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.
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You have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
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I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
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She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone.
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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
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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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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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