Rupi Kaur Quotes

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

- father

stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry

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

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left

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

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

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

do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay

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

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

this place makes me
the kind of exhausted that has
nothing to do with sleep
and everything to do with
the people around me

other women's bodies
are not our battlegrounds

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.

i have
what i have
and i am happy

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

- outlook

you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn't live

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

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

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

My tongue is sour
from the hunger
of missing you

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

To be soft is to be powerful

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

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

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

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

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

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

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

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

losing you was the becoming of myself

a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship

every revolution starts and ends with his lips

people go
but how
they left
always stays

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

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

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

accept yourself as you were designed

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

the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you

you are your own soul mate

we began
with honesty
left us end
in it too

-us

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

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

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

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

the way they
leave
tells you
everything

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i am nothing/ i am nothing/ i am nothing

it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret

you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close

fall
in love
with your solitude

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

-the perfect date

the thing worth holding on to would not have let go

you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once

-when you ask if we can still be friends

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

-balance

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

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

you've touched me
without even
touching me.

Do not beg for what does not want to stay.

i am learning how to love him by loving myself

give to those who have nothing to give to you -

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

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

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

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

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

loneliness is a sign you re in desperate need of yourself

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

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

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

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

i was music
but you had your ears cut off

we began with honesty let us end in it too -

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

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

bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom

if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise

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

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

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

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

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

you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal

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

loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself