Just like many, I find Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur to be one of the most eye-opening books that provide a new perspective towards pain and humanity.

Even though it is difficult to summarize Kaur's entire work in a couple sentences, Milk and Honey ponders upon suffering and surviving in the four components of her book - the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing.

While I enjoyed the book in its entirety, the following are few of the quotes that prompted me to question the emotions we feel and the journeys we experience:

1. “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”

2. “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”

3. “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”

4. “Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”

5. “what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”

6. “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- there is nothing purer than that”

7. “i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy - outlook”

8.“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”

9. “you
are your own
soulmate”

10. "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 -the idea shrinking is hereditary”