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Like your mouth has the gift of reading and I'm your favorite book. Find your favorite page in the soft spot between my legs and read it carefully. Fluently. Vividly. Don't you dare leave a single word untouched. And I swear my ending will be so good. — Rupi Kaur

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If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not — Rupi Kaur

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you were the most beautiful thing i'd ever felt till now. and i was convinced you'd remain the most beautiful thing i'd ever feel. do you know how limiting that is. to think at such a ripe young age i'd experienced the most exhilarating person i'd ever meet. how i'd spend the rest of my life just settling. to think i'd tasted the rawest form of honey and everything else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing beyond this point would add up. that all the years beyond me could not combine themselves to be sweeter than you.

- falsehood — Rupi Kaur

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i didn't know why
i split myself open
for other knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward — Rupi Kaur

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you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal — Rupi Kaur

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the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you — Rupi Kaur

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that's the
thing about love
it marinates your lips
till the only word your
mouth remembers
is his name — Rupi Kaur

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i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you. — Rupi Kaur

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you were so afraid
of my voice
i decided to be
afraid of it too — Rupi Kaur

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my heart aches for sisters more than anything
it aches for women helping women
like flowers ache for spring — Rupi Kaur

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how is it so easy for you
to be kind to people he askedmilk and honey dripped
from my lips as i answered cause people have not
been kind to me — Rupi Kaur

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my heart woke me crying last night how can i help i begged my heart said write the book — Rupi Kaur

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you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn't live — Rupi Kaur

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you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened — Rupi Kaur

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My tongue is sour
from the hunger
of missing you — Rupi Kaur

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what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i've ever had
in human form — Rupi Kaur

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the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist

simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids — Rupi Kaur

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he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips — Rupi Kaur

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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 — Rupi Kaur

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accept that you deserve more
than painful love
life is moving
the healthiest thing
for your heart is
to move with it — Rupi Kaur

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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 — Rupi Kaur

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you are your own soul mate — Rupi Kaur

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perhaps the saddest of all
are those who live waiting
for someone they're not
sure exists — Rupi Kaur

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other women's bodies
are not our battlegrounds — Rupi Kaur

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when my mother opens her mouth to have a conversation at dinner my father shoves the word hush between her lips and tells her to never speak with her mouth full this is how the women in my family learned to live with their mouths closed — Rupi Kaur

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there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you — Rupi Kaur

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our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry — Rupi Kaur

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The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me. — Rupi Kaur

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for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can't help but
see it everywhere — Rupi Kaur

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bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom — Rupi Kaur

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you pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
i stand up — Rupi Kaur

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of course i want to be successful
but i don't crave success for me
i need to be successful to gain
enough milk and honey
to help those around
me succeed — Rupi Kaur

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if he can't help but
degrade other women
when they're not looking
if toxicity is central to his language
he could hold you
in his lap and be soft
honey
that man could feed you sugar and
douse you in rose water
but that still could not
make him sweet

-if you want to know what the type of man he is — Rupi Kaur

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i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him — Rupi Kaur

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i am losing parts of you like i lose eyelashes
unknowingly and everywhere — Rupi Kaur

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the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened — Rupi Kaur

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I'd be lying if I said
you make me speechless
the truth is you make my
tongue so weak it forgets
what language to speak in. — Rupi Kaur

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i want to apologize to all the women i have called pretty 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 the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains from now on i will say things like you are resilient or you are extraordinary not because i don't think you're pretty but because you are so much more than that — Rupi Kaur

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if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else — Rupi Kaur

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your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is — Rupi Kaur

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we began
with honesty
left us end
in it too

-us — Rupi Kaur

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I know I
should crumble
for better reasons
but have you seen
that boy he brings
the sun to its knees
every
night. — Rupi Kaur

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emptying out of my mother's belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you're still alive is from the
heaving of your chest — Rupi Kaur

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he was supposed to be
the first male love of your life
you still search for him
everywhere

- father — Rupi Kaur

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sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed

-you are too late — Rupi Kaur

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you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first — Rupi Kaur

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you look like you smell of
honey and no pain
let me have a taste of that — Rupi Kaur

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i will not have you
build me into your life
when
what i want is to
build a life with you
- the difference — Rupi Kaur

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how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again. — Rupi Kaur

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the way they
leave
tells you
everything — Rupi Kaur

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the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art — Rupi Kaur

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you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else — Rupi Kaur

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i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.

but then.

there are some nights i imagine what i might do if you showed up. how if you walked into the room this very second every awful thing you've ever done would be tossed out the closet window and all the love would rise up again. it would pour through my eyes as if it never really left in the first place. as if it's been practicing how to stay silent so long only so it could be this loud on your arrival. can someone explain that. how even when the love leaves. it doesn't leave. how even when i am so past you. i am so helplessly brought back to you. — Rupi Kaur

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you were not wrong for leaving
you were wrong for coming back
and thinking
you could have me
when it was convenient
and leave when it was not — Rupi Kaur

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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 — Rupi Kaur

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stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you — Rupi Kaur

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i am nothing/ i am nothing/ i am nothing — Rupi Kaur

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it is a part of the human experience to feel pain do not be afraid open yourself to it - — Rupi Kaur

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i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut — Rupi Kaur

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i struggle so deeply
to understand
how someone can
pour their entire soul
blood and energy
into someone
without wanting
anything in
return

-i will have to wait till i'm a mother — Rupi Kaur

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isn't it such a tragic thing. when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't. — Rupi Kaur

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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 those things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left. — Rupi Kaur

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sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply don't want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body it's not love
it is rape — Rupi Kaur

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i always get myself into this mess.
i always let him tell me i am beautiful and half believe it. i always jump thinking he will catch me at the fall. i am hopelessly a lover, and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me — Rupi Kaur

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You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but I was not made with a fire in my belly so I could be put out I was not made with a lightness on my tongue so I could be easy to swallow I was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow. — Rupi Kaur

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it means nothing to me if he loves you if he can't do a single wretched thing about it — Rupi Kaur

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you leave
but you don't stay gone
why do you do that
why do you
abandon the thing you want to keep
why do you linger
in a place you do not want to stay
why do you think it's okay to do both
go and return all at once — Rupi Kaur

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i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving

-balance — Rupi Kaur

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if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise — Rupi Kaur

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fall
in love
with your solitude — Rupi Kaur

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you tell me
i am not like most girls
and learn to kiss me with your eyes closed
something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out
like i am supposed to be proud you picked me
as if i should be relieved you think
i am better than them — Rupi Kaur

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loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself — Rupi Kaur

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what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives — Rupi Kaur

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she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her — Rupi Kaur

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my issue with what they consider beautiful is their concept of beauty — Rupi Kaur

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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

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my favorite thing about you is your smell
you smell like
earth
herbs
gardens
a little more
human than the rest of us — Rupi Kaur

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every revolution starts and ends with his lips — Rupi Kaur

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I love that about us
how capable we are of feeling
how unafraid we are of breaking
and tend to our wounds with grace
just being a woman
calling myself
a woman
makes me utterly whole
and complete — Rupi Kaur

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there is no bigger illusion in the world
than the idea that a woman will
bring dishonor into a home
if she tries to keep her heart
and her body safe — Rupi Kaur

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i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth. — Rupi Kaur

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Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days — Rupi Kaur

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love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love — Rupi Kaur

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you were a dragon long before
he came around and said
you could fly

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left — Rupi Kaur

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we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not — Rupi Kaur

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You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant. — Rupi Kaur

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when my mother was pregnant with her second child i was four i pointed at her swollen belly confused at how my mother had gotten so big in such little time my father scooped me in his tree trunk arms and said the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman's body it's where life comes from and to have a grown man tell me something so powerful at such a young age changed me to see the entire universe rested at my mother's feet — Rupi Kaur

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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 — Rupi Kaur

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how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you — Rupi Kaur

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do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you — Rupi Kaur

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it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret — Rupi Kaur

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you look just like your mother

i guess i do carry her tenderness well

you both have the same eyes

cause we are both exhausted

and the hands

we share the same wilting fingers

but that rage your mother doesn't wear that rage

you're right
this rage is the one thing
i get from my father — Rupi Kaur

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people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

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i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me — Rupi Kaur

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losing you was the becoming of myself — Rupi Kaur

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you plough into me with two fingers and 1 am mostly shocked, it feels like rubber against an open wound, i do not like it. you begin pushing faster and faster, but i feel nothing, you search my face for a reaction so i begin acting like the naked women in the videos you watch when you think no one's looking, i imitate their moans, hollow and hungry, you ask if it feels good and i say yes so quickly it sounds rehearsed, but the acting, you do not notice. — Rupi Kaur

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it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations — Rupi Kaur

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you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone — Rupi Kaur

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something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out — Rupi Kaur

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i don't know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterwards — Rupi Kaur