Top 200 Nikita Gill Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The Goddess is coming home to us; she brings wealth to our houses and hearts.” This is how I see my sisters. Pure as fire, the greatest wealth I could ever know, finally, finally, bringing me home.”

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102. “But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.”

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103. “A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.”

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104. “Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair. Even if they tell you that they will change. Even if they tell you that they love you. Just remember, love isn’t meant to be permanently damaging. Love is meant to aid your healing.”

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105. “Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.”

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106. “In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.”

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107. “The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.”

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108. “What if I told you that damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one else’s business?”

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109. “Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.”

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110. “I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.”

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111. “Prometheus may be the father to us all, and Athena our giver of life. But Aphrodite is responsible for the gift that wrecks us all: our fragile, hard-loving, hard-falling, dangerous-to-grip and difficult-to-lose, spellbinding but treacherous hearts.”

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112. “You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.”

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113. “When you go through the moments where you are questioning yourself whether or not it was abuse, remember the way it made you feel. Push away the nostalgia that is trying to minimize it, trying to trick you like a bad magician at a children’s party that the rabbit did come from the hat, that love and abuse come from the same hat.”

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114. “Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge. She taught me how to become a good ancestor. At least this – loving her presence, appreciating her wisdom – is something I know how to do well.”

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115. “You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.”

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116. “I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.”

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117. “Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.”

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118. “They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented – there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.”

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119. “Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.”

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120. “I had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.”

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121. “Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.”

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122. “Raja Beta, Dil Ki Tukdi, what hurts you, my delight?”

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123. “All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.”

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124. “We write songs about it and poetry, and sweet stories, but people hurting each other will never become pretty. Every time a heart breaks and repairs, there are scars.”

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125. “Be inconvenient. Raise your hand despite their groans. Voice you opinions. Enter debates. Classrooms are not only boys’ domains.”

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126. “Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.”

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127. “If you want to know the secret, if you want to know the truth, there is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.”

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128. “When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.”

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129. “Trauma isn’t going to win today. Remember how Daphne turned into the laurel tree? This is what you must do too. Form your own roots, feed from the earth that still loves you. Remember how.”

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130. “Learn it well. Wear your hair wild, embrace your anger and learn to wield it without fear as a sword against those who hurt you.”

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131. “And darling, I hope your remember to kiss the ghosts goodnight. They are only older versions of you that you have had to discard and forget.”

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132. “She has been hurt before, but always, always has found her way back from pain. You see, her heart was born a wolf. If anyone has tried to break it with their callousness, it has always gone for their throat.”

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133. “I’m sorry it took me so long to understand. And I am sorry that I ended up understanding too well. I am still selfish and gas prices are still high and now I spend too much time having to wrap my arms around myself to ever let go long enough to hold someone else together. I should have called your mother. I should have called your mother. I should have called your mother.”

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134. “It’s how I learn there are a multitude of ways to say I love you. For so many you don’t have to use words at all.”

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135. “Take the day one cautious step at a time. Remember how fearless tastes. Remember how your grandmother told you ’always prepare for the worst of situations by being the best of yourself.”

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136. “She now saw life as an open wound. A shallow promise. A dark thing that should have loved her but instead tried to drown her.”

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137. “Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.”

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138. “It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.”

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139. “Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.”

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140. “It was the way your lip curled on the word “promise” that makes me uncomfortable. There are only three other people in my life that have ever used that word, and they are all strangers now.”

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141. “You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.”

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142. “What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?”

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143. “It is eerily terrifying that there is no sound when a heart breaks. Car accidents end with a bang, falling ends with a thud, even writing makes the scratching sound of pencil against paper. But the sound of a heart breaking is completely silent. Almost as though no one, not even the universe itself could create a sound for such devastation. Almost as though silence is the only way the universe could pay its respect to the sound of a heart falling apart.”

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144. “People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.”

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145. “She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone. And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.”

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146. “I lure myself into a spandex trap and I text Amanda, “Is this what death feels like?” Alone in my room I say, “God, is this a poem? It’s uncomfortable. It feels like a poem.” God never answers, which is what really makes it poetry.”

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147. “I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.”

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148. “A story is no small thing.”

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149. “Graveyards and Gardens There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.”

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150. “There are human beings in this world who are soft enough to feel every terrible thing that happens so deeply. And are still brave enough to remain constant and suffer for those who need them the most. Even the stars blink in awe of the gleam of their souls.”

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