SENTENCE MEME ⟶ RUPI KAUR / THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS
always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
“the last bouquet of flowers you gave me are wilting in their vase.”
“you left and i wanted you still.”
“i deserve someone who was willing to stay.”
“i want to rip my hair out until my mind exhausts itself into silence.”
“it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me. it’s what we could’ve built had we stayed.”
“i envy the winds who still witness you.”
“i could be anything in the world but i wanted to be his.”
“something was better than nothing.”
“you break women in like shoes.”
“i thought love looked so much like you.”
“i realized how naive i had been.”
“love does not look like a person.”
“we have the power to hurt one another.”
“we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t.”
“i am not your convenient option.”
“you took the sun with you when you left.”
“love is a double-edged knife.”
“you will suffer the way you make me suffer.”
“i deny the one who wants me because i want someone else.”
“i wonder if i am beautiful enough for you.”
“your voice alone drives me to tears.”
“you’re everywhere except right here.”
“i want to see the face of the woman who made you forget the one you had at home.”
“your absence is a missing limb.”
“my mind can’t stop itself from searching for you.”
“what do you think happens to love left behind?”
“how in the world did we get here?”
“how many months did it take before you stopped thinking of me?”
“the grass has declared you yesterday’s news.”
“if i’m not the love of your life, i’ll be the greatest loss instead.”
“how do i turn around and choose myself?”
“everything i miss about you was never there in the first place.”
“they come back and act like they never left.”
“life does not stop for anybody.”
“i hardened under the last loss.”
“all that’s left alive here is me.”
“i barely feel like living.”
“why are you so unkind to me?”
“you are waiting for someone who is not coming back.”
“a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.”
“they did not tell me it would hurt like this.”
“a loss is a loss is a loss.”
“i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference.”
“i hear one insult and all confidence shatters.”
“i am so tired of doing things your way.”
“i was the warmest place you knew and you turned me cold.”
“i’ve been trying to find my way back ever since.”
“i reduced my body to aesthetics.”
“the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time.”
“why do i punish my body for being exactly as it’s meant to be?”
“we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view.”
“you are no longer mine and my life is full.”
“nothing is enough for me.”
“it’s the type of exhausted that has nothing to do with sleep and everything to do with the people around me.”
“you do not just wake up and become a butterfly. growth is a process.”
“joy will reveal itself after sorrow.”
“there is nothing worth seeing here but guilt and shame.”
“i am not a mannequin in the window of your favorite shop.”
“you cannot dress me up or throw me out when i am worn.”
“your actions are not my responsibility.”
“it’s okay to let others help pick up the pieces.”
“we are more than capable of sharing your pain.”
“i have everything yet i am unhappy.”
“nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
“all you own is yourself.”
“yes, it is possible to love and hate someone at the same time –– i do it to myself every day.”
“i lost self-love and became my greatest enemy.”
“nothing wants me because i don’t want me.”
“i want to honeymoon myself.”
“how naive to think healing was that easy.”
“stop looking up at everything you don’t have and look around at everything you do.”
“you can imitate a light like mine, but you cannot become it.”
“people must wilt in order to bloom.”
“every word you say is your responsibility.”
“you need to be vulnerable to live fully.”
“there was no way to grieve that quick.”
“i am sorry this world could not keep you safe.”
“don’t let them make us turn on each other.”
“you are allowed to say no.”
“loneliness will cut a person in half.”
“you are the person i look up to most.”
“you are the heroes of heroes, the gods of gods.”
“it was the happiest i’d ever seen her.”
“there isn’t enough time to give her what she deserves.”
“it is you who became yourself.”
“those before you are a part of your fabric.”
“that is the most artistic thing i’ve ever seen.”
“she made an entire world for herself.”
“i went home and thought ‘we are soul mates’.”
“falling for you means falling out of him.”
“how do i teach myself to accept a healthy love when all i’ve ever known is pain?”
“never feel guilty for starting again.”
“i do not need the kind of love that is draining.”
“he sparks enough electricity within me to power a city.”
“i waited for my heart to abandon me.”
“why do i make loving me so difficult?”
“it could only be right to be this wrong with you.”
“sometimes i stop myself from saying the words aloud.”
“your fingers will grip mine to say things words can’t describe.”
“i try my hardest to stay present.”
“of course i am emotional.”
“they should feel like home.”
“the right one does not stand in your way; they make space for you to step forward.”
“together we are an endless conversation.”
“i promise to find you in every lifetime.”
“if you got any more beautiful the sun would leave its place and come for you.”
“i learned everything is temporary.”
“it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so difficult to remain soft.”
“i will no longer compare my path to others.”
“in a world that wanted to contain us, he made sure that we learned to walk independently.”
“this place never belonged to me anyway.”
“to hate is an easy crazy thing.”
“to love takes strength.”
“you are a magnet for the light.”
“there is no home like you.”
“i have won at this game called life.”
“you can’t keep lovers apart.”
“i hope you remember when you had nothing.”
“it is a trillion dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already.”
“their concept of beauty is manufactured.”
“your accomplishments are not my failures.”
“we need more love. not from me, but from ourselves and each other.”
“we have a glass ceiling to shatter.”
“now is not the time to be quiet.”
“now is our time to be mouthy, get as loud as we need to be heard.”
“representation is vital.”
“the road to changing the world is never-ending.”
“i will carry you to freedom.”
“there is nothing left to worry about.”
“there are days when the simple act of breathing leaves you exhausted.”