sourceblog for valkyrrhic

“her eyes hold thunder and her blood is magma. what matters love to a goddess of death?”

“My bones are smoldering And my knuckles are bloody. Forgive me. Forgive me.”

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.”

“This is for the survivors The ones that will never forgive their abusers The ones who will always have hate in their hearts The ones who were not made softer or kinder by the horrible things done to them The ones who became warriors and never learned to take off their armor This is for the survivors that no one talks about because it isn’t pretty enough Because the anger is white hot and ugly and poisonous even years after everything went wrong This is for the survivors who are barely doing just that Surviving Because God damn are we trying”

“Your scars are a warning to all future monsters, of the hell you have survived before them, every demon you vanquished, and every battle you won.”

“I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts.”

“Be careful of that girl, There’s a fire burning behind her eyes. She makes kingdoms fall, and monsters wish they’d never been born. She’s not just a warrior—she is a dragon. And she is not afraid to burn your heaven to the ground.”

“War ate a girl and spat out a woman.”

“Of course I look angry all the time. My entire life I’ve been fighting a war. I am soaked in pain and sadness. The irony however, is that I’m not actually angry, I’m trying to learn how to be happy. And that in itself is a war…”