Recently I read the book "Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur. "Milk and Honey" is Kaur's journey of surviving through poetry. It is Kaur giving you her heart and the hurting, loving, breaking, and healing she experienced.
And to be honest, this book kinda changed my life.
Here are 20 quotes from Milk and Honey that changed my life:
1. "You have been taught your legs are a pit stop for men that need a place to rest, a vacant body empty enough for guests but no one ever comes and is willing to stay."
2. "She was a rose in the hands of those who had no intention of keeping her."
3. "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."
4. "I've had sex she said, but I don't know what making love feels like."
5. "If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not."
6. "The idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic."
7. "You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn't live."
8. "Trying to convince myself I am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when I was born to use my right."
9. "No it won't be love at first sight when we meet, it'll be love at first remembrance cause I've seen you in my mother's eyes when she tells me to marry the type of man I'd want to raise my son to be like."
10. "My favorite things about you is your smell. You smell like earth, herbs, gardens, a little more human than the rest of us."
11. "I know I should crumble for better reasons, but have you seen that boy he brings the sun to its knees every night."
12. "I am ready for you, I have always been ready for you."
13. "I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me. I want to be full on my own. I want to be so complete, I could light a whole city and then I want to have you, cause the two of us combined could set it on fire."
14. "Love will come and when love comes, love will hold you, love will call your name, and you will melt. Sometimes though, love will hurt you but love will never mean to, love will play no games cause love knows life has been hard enough already."
15. "Don't mistake salt for sugar. If he wants to be with you, he will. It's that simple."
16. "I am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut."
17. "When you are broken and he has left you, do not question whether you were enough. The problem was you were so enough, he was not able to carry it."
18. "I don't know why I split myself open for others knowing sewing myself up hurts this much afterward."
19. "Perhaps I don't deserve nice things cause I am paying for sins I don't remember."
20. "If you are not enough for yourself, you will never be enough for someone else."
I hope after reading this, you were just as impacted as I was.
