sentence prompts ➝ milk & honey
❛ i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intelligent or brave ❜
❛ i am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is ❜
❛ all you have to be proud of ❜
❛ you are extraordinary ❜
❛ I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you ❜
❛ I left because the longer I stayed the less I loved myself. ❜
❛ loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. ❜
❛ every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness ❜
❛ you tell me to quiet down ❜
❛ i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out ❜
❛ i was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow ❜
❛ i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow ❜
❛ women like you drown oceans ❜
❛ if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise ❜
❛ our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry ❜
❛ stay strong through your pain ❜
❛ bloom beautifully dangerously loudly bloom softly ❜
❛ i am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away ❜
❛ 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 ❜
❛ do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you ❜
❛ what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives ❜
❛ you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant ❜
❛ how is it so easy for you to be kind to people ❜
❛ nothing even matters except love and human connection who you loved ❜
❛ but perhaps that isn’t such a good thing cause they always tend to leave ❜
❛ i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy ❜
❛ the thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying ❜
❛ people go but how they left always stays ❜
❛ the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it ❜
❛ how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you ❜
❛ you must never trade honesty for relatability ❜
❛ she was a rose in the hands of those who had no intention of keeping her ❜
❛ fall in love with your solitude ❜
❛ i always get myself into this mess ❜
❛ i am hopelessly a lover, and a dreamer, and that will be the death of me ❜
❛ you look at me and cry everything hurts ❜
❛ what i miss most is how you loved me ❜
