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“i saw one step. in the dark. not a path. not even two steps. so i took just one step. and i didn't know if there would be another one waiting, but i took it anyways… because i'm trying to have a brave heart even when it feels so. dark. so with no light and everything unknown and not even very much hope, i took a little step. and then… there was another little step. and everything in me breathed wild relief, not because i'm where i want to be yet… but because there was another step. and so now i have a little hope. and i still don't know what's waiting, and i don't know when i'll get to where i pray that i'm going, but i know that when i do… i'll look back and see just how much it mattered that i took that one little step.”

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“now that i know you exist… how do i not love you. how do i not follow this gravity towards you. now that i feel this, how could i ever not. feel. this. i don't know how i could ever be here in this life and not. love you. i just have no choice. but then… you made a choice. and now i have no choice. and i don't know how… how will i be here in this world with you somewhere else in this world. how. will i learn to pull myself out of this gravity and not feel this anymore now that i have felt. this. how… now that i know you exist… how do i not love you.”

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“something i can trust… if i'm being honest… my relationship with trust is a distant one, and my trust in the universe is a timid thing because life has felt bigger, and this path has felt harder at times than i've been able to take. and i'm still trying to believe that i am growing wings that were measured just for me, that are right-sized just. for. this. strong enough to lift me through it and beautiful enough to make it all worth it. but this distance with trust has made me feel anything but sure… and i guess trust is a muscle memory i just don't yet have. but i want to. so when the light seems quiet, and the guidance feels hushed, i'm going to lean in. because maybe it's gone quiet to get me to lean in… just so i can learn that when the voice inside has something to say… that it's something i can trust.”

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“little seeds, someday flowers… today i will be good to myself, and tomorrow maybe a little bit better, until being good to me is a little easier, and maybe even someday not so hard at all. maybe these are just little seeds but i'll keep giving them touches of sunlight… just a little hope here and a little grace there and a little more light in those places holding all the fear, and then maybe all these little seeds just might grow until someday they become flowers… and then i will be made of flowers.”

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“the sweet and wild rebellion in you… the poetry in those eyes… those dreamer's eyes learning to see in the dark. and all that beautiful madness tangled in your hair. toes dangling over the edge, testing a new universe. it's ok to take small steps and deep breaths, love… but also, let yourself start to take up your space. and don't you dare say you're sorry when you do. and you'll be rejected for these wings, these fires, for this sweet and wild rebellion in you. but these are such. beautiful. things. so keep choosing you… because nothing will matter if you reject you. if it needs you small, don't let it hold you anymore. don't let anything that needs you ordinary tame you ever again.”

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“that moment right before something wild and beautiful is about to happen… it's why that girl loves a drop… you get pulled into that moment that holds your breath, and then the music takes over like the whole world is high on soul-driven adrenaline / and in that feeling right before a kiss… there's that universe that only the two of you exist in, and then the kiss takes over your whole body like some kind of love-flavored mescaline / it's the let-go before the give-in / the suspension before the collision / when we hand our head over to our heart and let something made of magic find its way in …she likes the way that feels… that moment right before something wild and beautiful is about to happen.”

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“from over here, love looks so sweet. but… so. terrifying. because i don't yet know how. how to be so close to someone and not crumble into a wild mess of love where i lose me. the last time i got close… my god, how i lost me. so much that i could barely feel me. or hear me. and it's the deepest ache i've ever known when i can't feel me. so i'm still learning… how not to dim and quiet and run and hide and tame me. how to hold my own fire even when my heart catches fire. how to hold on so tight to my own depths that even when i'm tangled deep in you… i'm still always mine.”

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“your standards for love are going to make some people uncomfortable. they will try to make you feel like those standards are too high. i think it’s because those standards threaten that person’s comfort zones. what you believe in either challenges how they treat people… or how they've accepted being treated. but none of that is about you. this is your own life, and it will be your own love and your own heart. so don’t ever let anyone make you question your own standards… keep them high.”

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“your standards for love are going to make some people uncomfortable. they will try to make you feel like those standards are too high. i think it’s because those standards threaten their comfort zones. what you believe in either challenges how they treat people… or how they've accepted being treated. but none of that is about you. this is your own life, and it will be your own love and your own heart. so don’t ever let anyone make you question your own standards… keep them high.”

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“those three words… i can't say those three. little. words. because… i can't say it in three words. i can't speak these things small because i don't feel these things ordinary. i can't look at you and feel. all. these. things. and try to fit them into predetermined patterns or say them to you like some sort of easy habit; these things that i feel are star things and soul things and all of my everything, things. so when you ask… “do you?” i do, and i will… but out here where it's wild and up here where it's infinite and in me where i feel you, where i've always. felt. you… even before this. and where i'll feel you after this, and beyond this… so what i can't say means nothing. and it means everything. and what i mean when i say to you… burn out the stars with me …that's my way of asking for your forevers.”

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“wolves and lovers… wolves and lovers, restless and running wild, we need more than an ordinary love and a tamed life because some aches are made of everything. craving. everything. from the soul-deep to being tangled up in heartbeats and bite marks and body heat… driven by instincts and drunk on moonlight, we need a life made of things we can chew on, and nights where we find ourselves when we lose a little sleep and we feel the blood in our veins and the passion in our chests like kerosene… so i'll go with you, if you'll come with me… and we'll burn… we'll run… we'll love.”

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“sometimes, letting go is an exorcism. it's standing on a bridge in the mountains in the black of the night and screaming to the stars as you throw that necklace they gave you out into the canyon. and you watch it fall into every bit of the black below just to make sure to yourself that you will never, ever hold it again… to make sure you understand that they will never, ever hold you again. and it's chewing them out of your heart the way you used to bite down into their chest, and with that same intensity you used to feel when you were that close to them. an excruciating. exorcism. burning it all down and leaving it all behind and gutting yourself inside out until you remove every last trace. but sometimes… letting go is just noticing. a little change in your breath. how it comes a little easier from your lungs. how you feel just a little different in your skin, like it holds a little less memory of their fingertip touch and a little more texture of who you are. and then sometimes… it's finally surrendering. giving in to the loosening of your grip on what you can no longer hold on to because it just hurts too. much. to keep holding on. so you decide it might be ok- it might be essential to start letting go. and you let go just a little bit. and then a little bit more. and you let it fall through your fingers again and again and again until you finally feel free.”

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“your heart tells you big things in little ways… little whispers and nudges. different rhythms. little truths. the gentle ones… like ease. and safe. and ‘it's going to be ok’. and ‘you are worthy’… maybe you don't believe those yet, but they are for you. let them come to you again and again until you can let them in because they are for you. they are for you. they are for you… let life hold you. and the less gentle ones, the uncomfortable ones… the ‘this is not for you' and the ‘you can't stay still here'… you can try to ignore them, or rearrange them, but they're going to linger until you listen. and what they ask of you may tangle you up and turn you inside out, but they are trying to set you free. so take them in, and listen. and what you don't… what you won't listen to… those aren't going to stay little. they will become yearning. and ache. and the more you fight them, they are going to pull at you and pull at you and pull at you until they eventually break you open… and maybe even break you apart. but they are going to awaken you. and cleanse you. and shift you. and grow you and grow you and grow you until they can turn you into something so beautiful that you never before even knew you could become… so let it all crash right into you. you are made of heartbeats. and pulse. and instincts. and they are your compass. and your truth. and your freedom. they are your way out… and your way home. so let them guide you and awaken you and grow you and crash right into you if they have to… whatever it takes for you to listen.”

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