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Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

Nikita Gill

Top 10 Best Quotes

“You cannot mourn the life you haven't live yet, only one that has already gone. You will never know the meadows you could grow, if you are fixated on the ashes of a garden you never had.”

“The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.”

“We must remember that an ending is the start of another beautiful something, that there is always light to be had at the end of everything.”

“Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.”

“A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?”

“The universe had to fall apart into dust first to become its majestic, infinite self. What makes you think this trauma, this devastation, won't be the making of a more powerful you, too?”

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

“Empty out the darkness that has accumulated at the bottom of your heart, all the words you refuse to say. Your heart is not a well to poison; remember that. When the secrets become too heavy to carry, whisper them to the wind to be whisked away.”

“On the days you find the mirror hard to look at, remember there is a myth which says the face you have in this life is the face of the person you loved most in your last. I know it's just a myth. But think of how much more love you would give yourself if it were true.”

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

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