anonymity is a gift to authoritarians. They thrive on fear and the suppression of dissent.
“i hereby grant myself the permission to not be strong all of the time. i also grant myself the permission to not be soft all of the time. i’m allowed to just simply be. —temperance.”
― Break Your Glass Slippers
― Break Your Glass Slippers
“do not plan your life so meticulously that you leave no space for starlight to leak in.- miracles happen only if you let them.”
― Shine your Icy Crown
― Shine your Icy Crown
“Fairy godmother says
without you here,
the moon & the stars
would fall.
Mountains would crack
down the middle.
Castles would crumble
into nothingness.
Books would burst
into flames.
It's not time to go just yet.”
― Break Your Glass Slippers
without you here,
the moon & the stars
would fall.
Mountains would crack
down the middle.
Castles would crumble
into nothingness.
Books would burst
into flames.
It's not time to go just yet.”
― Break Your Glass Slippers
“don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms.
here’s an indisputable fact: you matter.”
― Shine your Icy Crown
here’s an indisputable fact: you matter.”
― Shine your Icy Crown
“we are not defined by the love our family could or could not give us. we are defined, instead, by the people we consciously become in spite of them—the kindness we show others, the forgiveness we give to ourselves, the times we speak up instead of choosing to remain silent, & the difficult yet necessary apologies we make.”
― shine your icy crown
― shine your icy crown
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