As many of us know, Rupi Kaur is the amazing author of “Milk and Honey” and “The Sun and Her Flowers”. She creates novels by writing many different small poems to tell a story throughout the entire book. Kaur writes about her own personal life experiences, which allows her writing to be raw and detailed. Readers are pulled in by the details and absorbed in her life experiences. Kaur has a talent of making you think and leaving you speechless.
1. "If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise" (156).
2. "Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself" (153).
3. "I am water. Soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away" (137).
4. "The night after you left, I woke up so broken the only place to put the pieces were the bags under my eyes" (130).
5. "You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant" (63).
6. "He guts her with his fingers like he's scraping the inside of a cantaloupe clean" (31).
7. "The idea that we are so capable of love, but still choose to be toxic" (23).
8. "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 -to fathers with daughters" (19).
9. "The next time he points out the hair on your legs is growing back, remind that boy your body is not his home. He is a guest, warn him to never outstep his welcome again" (165).
10. "To be soft is to be powerful" (166).
11. "Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry -women of color" (171).
12. "Hair. If it was not supposed to be there, would not be growing on our bodies in the first place -we are at war with what comes most naturally to us" (193).
Take the time and invest yourself in "Milk and Honey" to experience what others go through.
Kaur, Rupi. Milk and Honey. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016.
