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Milk and Honey QUOTES

Milk and Honey QUOTES

1 " he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn't call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite

- how he touches me "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

2 " stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

3 " to do list (after the breakup)
1. take refuge in your bed
2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days).
3. don’t listen to slow songs.
4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips.
5. don’t look at old photos.
6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate.
7. buy new bed sheets.
8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center.
9. plan a trip.
10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.
11. start a new project.
12. whatever you do. do not call.
13. do not beg for what does not want to stay.
14. stop crying at some point.
15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach.
16. breathe. "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

4 " i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

5 " i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

6 " for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

7 " your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

8 " i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

9 " what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing

our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

10 " i was music
but you had your ears cut off "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

11 " a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

12 " you tell me
i am not like most girls
and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
like i am supposed to be proud you picked me
as if i should be relieved you think
i am better than them "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

13 " something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

14 " I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

15 " do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

16 " how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

17 " fall
in love
with your solitude "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

18 " i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you. "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

19 " the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey

20 " you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal "

― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey