Top 200 Nikita Gill Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “A story is no small thing.”

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

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156. “Maybe living your truth will not make you happy all the time, but it will make you happy every day.”

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157. “So when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.”

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158. “And I return home always. Because love’s call has always been stronger than the moon’s.”

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159. “I used to only pick up a pen for myself but now I pick one up for you too. Is there such a thing as an unselfish love poem? I don’t know, but I’m trying.”

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160. “All he knew was chaos and this mortal world was obsessed with order.”

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161. “Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.”

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162. “You don’t know what to do with your fear; you just know when it does come, it has to be a secret you keep to yourself.”

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163. “And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?”

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164. “Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.”

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165. “There is a spell for almost anything and if there’s not a spell, there is at least a poem.”

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166. “You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.”

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167. “Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.”

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168. “If hate is what made you, how does one replace it with love?”

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169. “Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?”

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170. “The truth is, any hardship is bearable if you have someone to share it.”

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171. “Does the night ever tire of the darkness? Does the sea ever tire of her own depths? Do the trees ever tire of their roots? Do mortals ever tire of looking for other mortals to call home?”

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172. “You see, yesterday, someone asked me, ‘How do you heal from losing the greatest love of your life?’ I smiled and answered, ‘You make yourself another one. And you make that love yourself.”

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173. “The number of calls from you on my phone is zero. The number of calls from me to you is one. When you hear the voicemail, I hope you don’t hear the desperation in the way I wish you all the luck in the world and tell you how pleased I am for you. I hope you don’t hear the way my lungs breathe ‘iloveyouineedyoupleasedontgo’ every time I draw in a breath.”

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174. “Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.”

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175. “They pull at a thread of pain left by someone in your mind, and sew an entire ghost out of you.”

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176. “A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.”

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177. “You have been created from the blood of incalculable planets and immense supernovas and infinite constellations. And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.”

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178. “You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.”

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179. “Nothing makes her want to be less adventurous or give up her eternal search for something to quench her wanderlust.”

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180. “You’re older, Paro. You can manage.′ I heard that a lot. I learned later girls heard that a lot.”

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181. “There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.”

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182. “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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183. “My Fairy Godmother is my heart sustaining me.”

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184. “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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185. “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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186. “So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.”

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

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

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190. “These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.”

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191. “Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.”

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192. “Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.”

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193. “Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.”

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194. “And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.”

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195. “Ask Hades when he let go of his brothers. Even in the Underworld, the air suddenly honeyed, made his reign feel so much kinder, better than it ever was before.”

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196. “To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.”

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197. “And I have faith that when you put the sins to bed you check under their beds for monsters, just to say hello to them after all these years.”

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198. “I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed.”

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199. “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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200. “Without heartache there are no lessons to gain.”

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