What I have spent in mourning is the price I have paid for my healing.
NIKITA GILLBefore we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.
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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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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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Even without him, you can bring down monsters. Believe me. You can still bring down monsters.
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Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
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To my inner child, I promise I am trying my best to heal from everything that hurt you. I promise I am trying to become the person you need me to be so we can both be whole.
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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 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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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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A story is no small thing.
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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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So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
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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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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
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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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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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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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That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
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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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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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