Rupi Kaur Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. other women's bodies
are not our battlegrounds

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#3. don't mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it's that simple

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#4. loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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#7. 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

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#8. sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed

-you are too late

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#9. i have
what i have
and i am happy

i've lost
what i've lost
and i am
still
happy

- outlook

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#10. loneliness is a sign you re in desperate need of yourself

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#11. that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.

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#12. You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.

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#13. you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone

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#14. we began with honesty let us end in it too -

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#15. 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.

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#16. Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.

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#17. our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry

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#18. you deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them

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#19. he asks me what i do i tell him i work for a small company that makes packaging for - he stops me midsentence no not what you do to pay the bills what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

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#20. 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.

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#21. The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me.

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#22. it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

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#23. how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.

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#24. 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

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#25. the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art

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#26. he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

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#27. losing you was the becoming of myself

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#28. a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship

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#29. you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting - letter to my future lover

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#30. Do not beg for what does not want to stay.

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#31. he only whispers i love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants. this is where you must understand the difference between want and need - you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

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#32. 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.

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#33. the way they
leave
tells you
everything

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#34. 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

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#35. 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

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#36. you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

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#37. it is a part of the human experience to feel pain do not be afraid open yourself to it -

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

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#39. what is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives

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#40. every revolution starts and ends with his lips

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#41. give to those who have nothing to give to you -

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#42. how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

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#43. we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not

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#44. some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

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#45. i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away

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#46. you look like you smell of
honey and no pain
let me have a taste of that

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#47. we all move forward when
we recognize how resilient
and striking the women
around us are

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#48. it means nothing to me if he loves you if he can't do a single wretched thing about it

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#49. 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

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#50. Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days

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

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left

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#52. i will not have you
build me into your life
when
what i want is to
build a life with you
- the difference

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#53. 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

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#54. my favorite thing about you is your smell
you smell like
earth
herbs
gardens
a little more
human than the rest of us

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#55. for a second i wonder if you are really that naive. if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess. as if it is not the choices we make.

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#56. you are your own soul mate

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#57. the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic

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#58. i didn't leave because
i stopped loving you
i left because the longer
i stayed the less
i loved myself

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#59. she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her

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#60. my heart woke me crying last night how can i help i begged my heart said write the book

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#61. I've had sex, she said
But I don't know
What making love
Feels like

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#62. 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

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#63. i didn't know why
i split myself open
for other knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterward

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#64. i was music
but you had your ears cut off

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#65. i don't know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterwards

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#66. the thing worth holding on to would not have let go

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#67. you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close

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#68. 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

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#69. it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret

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#70. 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

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#71. 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

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#72. you were so afraid
of my voice
i decided to be
afraid of it too

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#73. you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves

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#74. do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

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#75. if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

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#76. 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

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#77. we began
with honesty
left us end
in it too

-us

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#78. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened

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#79. 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

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#80. stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you

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

- father

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#82. the one who arrives after you will remind me love is supposed to be soft he will taste like the poetry i wish i could write

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#83. the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you

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#84. my heart aches for sisters more than anything
it aches for women helping women
like flowers ache for spring

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#85. i am learning how to love him by loving myself

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#86. you are in the habit
of co-depending
on people to
make up for what
you think you lack
who tricked you
into believing
another person
was meant to complete you
when the most they can do is complement

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#87. fall
in love
with your solitude

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#88. i am nothing/ i am nothing/ i am nothing

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#89. you pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
i stand up

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#90. accept yourself as you were designed

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#91. nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me

-the perfect date

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#92. your mother
is in the habit of
offering more love
than you can carry


your father is absent


you are a war
the border between two countries
the collateral damage
the paradox that joins the two
but also splits them apart

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#93. 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

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#94. people go
but how
they left
always stays

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#95. bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom

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#96. 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

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#97. you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal

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#98. accept that you deserve more
than painful love
life is moving
the healthiest thing
for your heart is
to move with it

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#99. To be soft is to be powerful

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#100. 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

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