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61 " The kindest words my father said to meWomen like you drown oceans. "
― Rupi Kaur , Milk and Honey
62 " people go but how they left always stays "
63 " stay strong through your paingrow flowers from ityou have helped me grow flowers out of mine sobloom beautifullydangerouslyloudlybloom softlyhowever you needjust bloom "
64 " Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry "
65 " for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can't help butsee it everywhere "
66 " most importantly lovelike it's the only thing you know howat the end of the day all thismeans nothingthis pagewhere you're sittingyour degreeyour jobthe moneynothing even mattersexcept love and human connectionwho you lovedand how deeply you loved themhow you touched the people around youand how much you gave them "
67 " i don’t know what living a balanced life feels likewhen i am sadi don’t cry i pourwhen i am happyi don’t smile i glowwhen i am angryi don’t yell i burnthe good thing about feeling in extremes is when i love i give them wings but perhaps that isn't such a good thing cause they always tend to leave and you should see me when my heart is broken i don't grievei shatter "
68 " The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying. "
69 " how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me "
70 " the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it - there is nothing purer than that "
71 " i am hopelessly a lover anda dreamer andthat will be thedeath of me "
72 " i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy - outlook "
73 " apparently it is ungraceful of meto mention my period in publiccause the actual biologyof my body is too realit is okay to sell what'sbetween a woman's legsmore than it is okay tomention its inner workingsthe recreational use ofthis body is seen asbeautiful whileits nature isseen as ugly "
74 " my heart woke me crying last nighthow can i help i beggedmy heart saidwrite the book "
75 " you cannot leaveand have me tooi cannot exist intwo places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends "
76 " the very thought of youhas my legs spread apartlike an easel with a canvasbegging for art "
77 " what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn't know was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave you. coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these things after you left. "
78 " love will comeand when love comeslove will hold youlove will call your nameand you will meltsometimes thoughlove will hurt you but love will never mean tolove will play no gamescause love knows lifehas been hard enough already "
79 " it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations "
80 " you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first "