Top 40 Alisha Rai Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can do this, and if you can’t do it today, you’ll do it tomorrow. You are not a failure.”

— Alisha Rai

2. “I don’t say it enough, because I assumed you knew I love you. But that’s the problem. Sometimes we think a person doesn’t need to hear something because it’s obvious, because they know what’s in our hearts. But that’s not how the world works. We have to say the things.”

— Alisha Rai

3. “Principles don’t have borders.”

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4. “Every time you hurt someone, you break off a little piece of them. Not only do they have to live with that broken piece, then the next person who comes along has to figure out a way to spackle that spot. Your behavior has ripple effects.”

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5. “You can’t control someone else’s actions, you can only control yourself.”

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6. “Sometimes, good people make mistakes. It costs you nothing to hear someone out.” “No. It does cost you something.” Because if you believed that person when you heard them out, and then they betrayed you, you ended up doubly hurt. Easier to give people one shot.”

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7. “In the deepest, darkest depths of her heart where she kept all her dreams locked up in a pink journal decorated with ponies and unicorns, she’d fantasized about declaring her love for Sasha Karimi for two years. In those scenarios, he generally fell to his knees in thrilled delight before he reciprocated the feelings and then they got married and had lots of babies and maybe a pet iguana and lived happily ever after.”

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8. “Find me the empty soul who doesn’t get emotional over While You Were Sleeping.”

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9. “Society tells women that they have to be responsible for the emotional health of their relationships and then tells them they’re weak for feeling emotions. What kind of message is that?”

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10. “The world was unkind to women. It was devastating to women who didn’t believe in themselves.”

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11. “In the nonprofit world, the more a charity gala looked like a party where a supervillain might take the guests hostage, the more of a success it was.”

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12. “You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair, when everything feels like it’s collapsing in on you, and yes, when you feel like you want to die. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are not you.” Maile.”

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13. “You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are not you.”

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14. “It’s not a weakness to take care of yourself. Asking for and taking what you need to function should never be considered a weakness.”

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15. “He started to curse but cut himself off. She wanted him to curse. She wanted him to be bad, as bad as her. She wanted to corrupt him, stain his pure soul, stamp the imprint of her nastiness on him.”

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16. “I think it takes a certain kind of strength, when the world is hateful or mean, to come out on the other side with your heart and your kindness and your humanity intact.”

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17. “Sometimes we think a person doesn’t need to hear something because it’s obvious, because they know what’s in our hearts. But that’s not how the world works. We have to say the things.”

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18. “There’s no such thing as being problem-free. You can really only hope for someone who’s able to share your problems with you.”

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19. “I’d be the safest wrong thing you could do.”

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20. “Because it was far easier to be kind to other people than it was to be kind to herself. I deserve compassion. Ugh. She did. She really did. Tani.”

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21. “She wasn’t sure if she fully believed the words her therapist had given her to keep in her arsenal, but they helped. And one day, if she said them enough times, maybe she could absolutely believe them.”

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22. “Had she wondered where the pain portion of that pleasure-and-pain cycle was? Oh. It was right here.”

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23. “You were hurt. It’s not a weakness to love someone like that. It’s not a weakness to be in pain when that love is ripped away from you.”

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24. “Nothing’s over ’til you quit.”

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25. “You don’t just decide to love and suddenly everything is fine. Love takes practice. Love isn’t passive, it’s active. A verb.”

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26. “The shell was there, waiting for her, and part of her wanted to crawl into it. She didn’t fault herself for that part of her, though, because she finally understood the shell wasn’t necessarily a horrible thing. It was a protective mechanism, that was all. It had kept her alive and functioning when the world wanted to poke and hurt her. It was a part of her, and maybe not a part of herself that she needed to find disgusting or bad.”

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27. “Humans were complicated. Parents especially so.”

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28. “Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that’s the only way you figure out who your closet people are.”

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29. “I couldn’t let you be angry, or at the very least, I couldn’t let you show that anger. Because then you would be that angry Black girl, and everyone would dismiss your intelligence or worse, suppress everything that makes you you.”

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30. “It was so much easier to write people off. Much harder to navigate the gray areas of interpersonal relationships.”

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31. “I can tell you that occasionally you have to directly ask them why they’re doing what they do. You might be surprised by the answer. No one tells you that this is a big part of relationships. Sometimes it’s not all about big misunderstandings. Sometimes it’s about learning how to talk to each other. We all have insecurities, and we have to help each other navigate around them.”

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32. “An older sister was supposed to protect, not abandon.”

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33. “Be careful how many times in your life you say not yet, beti. You’d be surprised how quickly time flies.”

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34. “Every time you hurt someone, you break off a little piece of them.”

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35. “Humans aren’t meant to be indefinitely bent into pretzels. We bend until we snap, and then we put ourselves back together and hold steady until someone or something bends us again. Every part of that process requires strength, and hope, I think.” Even the breaking. Even if you need help putting yourself back together.”

— Alisha Rai

36. “Small talk was the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.”

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37. “Ain’t no man in the world who is impossible to recover from. You only need the right support to do it.”

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38. “That’s fine. We do only the things we’re capable of doing.”

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39. “It actually made it really hard for me to learn to interact with other people, having sisters. Because you can’t really go from ‘I’m going to kill you’ to ‘want some ice cream?’ with anyone else in your life.”

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40. “Infants were like a ball of cheeks and rolls held together with drool, but they were surprisingly sturdy.”

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41. “The people I loved, I chose wisely. When I did reach out, they were right there.”

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