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“Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“We're more than our mistakes. We're more than what people expect of us.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.”
― Rupi Kaur

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn
the 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 grieve
i shatter”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“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

“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“i was music
but you had your ears cut off”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“isn’t it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn’t.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“you want to keep
the blood and the milk hidden
as if the womb and breast
never fed you”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.”
― Misha Collins

“Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”
― Misha Collins

“I want to live in a world where "normal" is an insult.”
― Misha Collins