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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.

Nikita Gill

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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Choice Eyes Habit Herself Love Magic Question
The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
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Best Deep Existence Heart Known Myself Quiet Story Truth Victory Willing Worst
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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Fear Hairs Hurt Learning Wild Yourself
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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Flower Garden Graveyard Heart Broken Let Go Need Plant Trauma Yourself
Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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Flaws Perfection Work Yourself
Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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Force Trauma Way Willing
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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Blood Growth Home Language Yourself
But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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Brutal Myself Violence Way Woman
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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Bone Despite Finding Lightening Ourselves Survive Thrive Way
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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Empowerment Growth Herself Leadership Mom Power Strange Strong Weird Wild Wolf
Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.
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Body Break Damage People Soul Tired Yourself
When 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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Anxiety Believe Care Family Father Fear Finding Hero History Lose Repeat Simplicity
Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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Beginning End Man Trust
I don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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Deserve Known Love Myself People
I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
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Finding Hope Known Love Relationship Sad Yourself
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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Better Self Love Soft Yourself

All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.

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