The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
NIKITA GILLThe 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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And I return home always. Because love’s call has always been stronger than the moon’s.
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Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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So when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
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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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Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.
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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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In human beings, a black hole is spending your energy loving someone who takes all of your love and gives back nothing in return.
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The woman who tames fires and snakes and savours bones.
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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It’s how I learn there are a multitude of ways to say I love you. For so many you don’t have to use words at all.
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Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
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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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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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Without heartache there are no lessons to gain.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.’
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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The deepest love you can ever have is the love you have for yourself.
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Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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