“he was supposed to be the first male love of your life you still search for him everywhere - father” — Rupi Kaur Father Copy Share Image
“i stand on the sacrifices of a million women before me thinking what can i do to make this mountain taller so… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i do not weep becasuse I'm unhappy i weep because I have everything yet I'm unhappy” — Rupi Kaur Unhappy Copy Share Image
“I long for you but you long for someone else I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise” — Rupi Kaur Strength Copy Share Image
“i love that about us how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i had to leave i was tired of allowing you to make me feel anything less than whole” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“what terrifies me most is how we foam at the mouth with envy when others succeed but sigh in relief when they… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“you treat them like they have a heart like yours but not everyone can be as soft and as tender you don’t… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was… — Rupi Kaur Beautiful Copy Share Image
I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas 'Milk and Honey' was very much like holding a… — Rupi Kaur Book Copy Share Image
My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto… — Rupi Kaur Children Copy Share Image
“you look just like your mother i guess i do carry her tenderness well you both have the same eyes cause we… — Rupi Kaur Mother Copy Share Image
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger,… — Rupi Kaur Anger Copy Share Image
“for you to see beauty here does not mean there is beauty in me it means there is beauty rooted so deep… — Rupi Kaur Beauty Copy Share Image
I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat.… — Rupi Kaur Around the world Copy Share Image
I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to… — Rupi Kaur Anthologies Copy Share Image
“to make him the one and it took me three years to realize love doesn’t work like that” — Rupi Kaur Control issues Copy Share Image
“he says i am sorry i am not an easy person to want i look at him surprised who said i wanted… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“there is no bigger illusion in the world than the idea that a woman will bring dishonor into a home if she… — Rupi Kaur Dishonor Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I split myself open for others knowing sewing myself up hurts this much afterward.” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave so we keep breaking one another and calling it love” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“what if we get to their doors and they slam them shut I ask what are doors she says when we've escaped… — Rupi Kaur Animals Copy Share Image
“i know i should crumble for better reasons but have you seen that boy he brings the sun to its knees every… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips he didn’t call me beautiful… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“representation is vital otherwise the butterfly surrounded by a group of moths unable to see itself will keep trying to become the… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“you want to keep the blood and the milk hidden as if the womb and breast never fed you” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed - you are… — Rupi Kaur Apology Copy Share Image
“sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed” — Rupi Kaur Apology Copy Share Image
“you are a war the border between two countries the collateral damage the paradox that joins the two but also splits them… — Rupi Kaur Collateral damage Copy Share Image
“when death takes my hand i will hold you with the other and promise to find you in every lifetime” — Rupi Kaur Death Copy Share Image
“trying to convince myself i am allowed to take up space is like writing with my left hand when i was born… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I don't deserve Nice things Cause I am paying For sins I don't Remember” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice. — Rupi Kaur Book Copy Share Image
Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
