Top 200 Nikita Gill Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Seven billion people, and some of us have just had the best day of their lives. Today may have been the very worst day of yours. But take solace and celebrate this simple fact. It wasn’t your best day today, but it is on it’s way, because we all get lucky in turn.”

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

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104. “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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105. “Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.”

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

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108. “I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”

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

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111. “You are half fairytale, half girl.”

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112. “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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113. “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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114. “People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.”

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115. “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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116. “Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.”

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “But the universe never promised you this would be easy. After all, you are the hero here.”

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.”

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127. “You are every beautiful thing that has ever happened to me wrapped in a person. You may think you are ordinary, but to me you are as magical as the ocean.”

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128. “Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.”

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129. “Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.”

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130. “It has taken me some time to learn that although karma exists, you can let your hatred go, not by destroying your own magic but by letting it grow.”

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131. “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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132. “Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.”

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

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134. “The loneliest thing you can ever do is take every instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?”

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

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

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138. “And when the burning inside your chest claws, insults you as forgotten, hideous, unloved every single night, you learn how to create iron, then a sword, and challenge those demons to a fight.”

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

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141. “People give abandonment many names to make themselves feel better. Apollo named his necessary. He called it ‘the lesser of two evils’. Artemis was more brutal. She named hers ‘freedom’.”

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142. “Forgiveness is easier to give to others than to yourself. But I am slowly learning.”

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143. “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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144. “The last time you kiss someone does not have to feel like you are losing them in a war.”

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145. “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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146. “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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147. “In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.”

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148. “So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.”

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

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