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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 -- Rupi Kaur
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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 -- Rupi Kaur
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the thing worth holding on to would not have let go -- 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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you have to stop searching for why at some point you have to leave it alone -- 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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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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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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there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you -- 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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how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you -- 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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my issue with what they consider beautiful is their concept of beauty -- 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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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 -- 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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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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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 -- 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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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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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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you are your own soul mate -- 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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do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay -- Rupi Kaur
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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 -- 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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you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close -- 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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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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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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this place makes me
the kind of exhausted that has
nothing to do with sleep
and everything to do with
the people around me -- Rupi Kaur
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you are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting - letter to my future lover -- Rupi Kaur
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bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom -- 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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if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise -- 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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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 -- Rupi Kaur
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the way they
leave
tells you
everything -- 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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you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once

-when you ask if we can still be friends -- 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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My tongue is sour
from the hunger
of missing you -- 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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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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people go
but how
they left
always stays -- Rupi Kaur
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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 -- Rupi Kaur
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i didn't leave because
i stopped loving you
i left because the longer
i stayed the less
i loved myself -- 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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a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship -- Rupi Kaur
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our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry -- 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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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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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. -- Rupi Kaur
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i am learning how to love him by loving myself -- Rupi Kaur
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you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else -- 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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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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accept yourself as you were designed -- Rupi Kaur
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loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself -- 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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you deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them -- Rupi Kaur
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To be soft is to be powerful -- Rupi Kaur
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love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already -- 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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it must hurt to know i am your most beautiful regret -- 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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i have
what i have
and i am happy

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

- outlook -- Rupi Kaur
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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 -- 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
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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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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 am losing parts of you like i lose eyelashes
unknowingly and everywhere -- Rupi Kaur
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fall
in love
with your solitude -- 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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the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you -- 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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i was music
but you had your ears cut off -- Rupi Kaur
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I've had sex, she said
But I don't know
What making love
Feels like -- Rupi Kaur
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the idea that we are
so capable of love
but still choose
to be toxic -- 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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the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened -- Rupi Kaur
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every revolution starts and ends with his lips -- 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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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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it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. -- Rupi Kaur
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loneliness is a sign you re in desperate need of yourself -- 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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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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you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves -- 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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he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips -- Rupi Kaur
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we began with honesty let us end in it too - -- 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 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 must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first -- 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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losing you was the becoming of myself -- Rupi Kaur
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nothing is safer
than the sound of you
reading out loud to me

-the perfect date -- 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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don't mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it's that simple -- 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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that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. -- 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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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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The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me. -- 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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other women's bodies
are not our battlegrounds -- 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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give to those who have nothing to give to you - -- Rupi Kaur
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i am nothing/ i am nothing/ i am nothing -- Rupi Kaur
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some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest -- 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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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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if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else -- Rupi Kaur
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Do not beg for what does not want to stay. -- Rupi Kaur
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i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away -- Rupi Kaur
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you've touched me
without even
touching me. -- 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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Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway. -- 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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it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations -- Rupi Kaur
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we began
with honesty
left us end
in it too

-us -- 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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stay
i whispered
as you
shut the door behind you -- 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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do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you -- Rupi Kaur
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we all move forward when
we recognize how resilient
and striking the women
around us are -- Rupi Kaur