The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
NIKITA GILLEven with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
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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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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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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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So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
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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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Anxious people are resorceful, they need to know how to keep the sea of panic at bay so they do not drown.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
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She is unpredictable, and unpredictable is another word for ‘threat’ when a woman wears it well.
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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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There is a knowing in her, she hears them say, that makes her untamable. She has known since she was a child that she is observant in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
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A story is no small thing.
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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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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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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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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.
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You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
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What a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you.
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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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How do you go back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul?
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