#st: triangles

[illusionswrites]

You called me a girl, but I am a portrait of the world on fire. You called me a girl, but I am a bruise that refuses to heal. You called me a girl, but I am a knife.

from Artemis Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

[illusionswrites]

women do not have to tear each other down to build themselves up. one woman's success is not another's failure, it is a victory. loving one another when the world tells you to stop is not weakness, it is strength.

men gave us the torches to burn ourselves down

[illusionswrites]

fuck the idea that there is such a thing as destiny, that there exists some kind of mysterious master plan, that there is a god who simply does not give us anything we cannot handle. the pain did not make me a better person. it did not teach me not to take anything for granted. it did not teach me anything except how to be afraid to love anyone. i am far too young to be so goddamn broken & if i could go back in time & give myself her childhood back,                      i would.

what was the point? the princess saves herself in this one by amanda lovelace.

[illusionswrites]

you are your own empress. you are your own high priestess. you are your own goddess. your independence will intimidate some-- it may even offend others. let it. that's their own problem, not yours.

big sister says from “shine your icy crown” by amanda lovelace

[illusionswrites]

My witchcraft does not answer to you. I did not come here for your validation, for your words to bring out the best in me, when I am already the best I can be. I came here to tell you my magic is mine and mine alone. You can love me, or hate me, but this is how I was made, thunder skinned and lightning boned.

“What To Say When They Think You Have Come To Them For Validation” from Your Heart Is The Sea by Nikita Gill

[illusionswrites]

Get stolen by a God, run away with him, away from the meadows, wood nymph. Become Queen of the underworld. Turn the land of the dead into home. (You knew, didn't you, Cora? How you would rather be Persephone?)

excerpt from “How To Become A Myth” from Your Heart Is The Sea by Nikita Grill

[illusionswrites]

Who else was it going to be other than him when I am me? We are both destruction and evolution, endings and beginnings. The universe plots to bring those who can heal each other together. Yet I do not call this healing. This is something else.

excerpt from “Love and War” from Great Goddesses by Nikita Gill

[illusionswrites]

Your mother gave up her wild. You can still see it in her her eyes when something makes her ache. The way a wolf's eyes gleam with ferocity when she senses her young is in danger.

Mother by Nikita Gill