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" If you don't know
Beck's humor, or Vivian's grace.
Their riotous, righteous anger.
That's what girls
are made of.
I would know, because I've seen it
and because, for a brief time,
I was made of all those things, too.
And I have also seen
the way they bent time
and space, like their grief
held a gravity
that could not be denied.
And when it gave in,
the strangest thing happened.
It let me come back to them,
for a time, perhaps just
long enough
to remind the world
what we girls are capable of.
Like when Cassandra
saw the future,
when Ariadne
escaped the maze,
when Circe cursed the men,
and Helen started a war,
when Medusa was hunted,
and Andromeda was sacrificed
for her city.
If you already know
the truth about girls
(if you've been lucky enough
to see it)
then you already know
it is possible for three girls
to be at the center of the their own stories-
to be at the center
of everything.
You already know that
we can be heroes. "
― Kyrie McCauley , We Can Be Heroes
