Rupi Kaur … sentence starters
“ to be soft is to be powerful. “
“ never feel guilty for starting, again. “
“ and here you are, living despite it all. “
“ what i miss most is how you loved me. “
“ when my heart is broken, i don’t grieve. “
“ i have survived far too much to go quietly. “
“ people go, but how they left always stays. ”
“ do not question whether you were enough. “
“ … ’cause people have not been kind to me. “
“ it’s about how honest you are with yourself. “
“ at the end of the day, all this means nothing. “
“ you must never trade honesty for relatability. “
“ love will hurt you, but love will never mean to. “
“ this rage is the one thing i get from my father. “
“ how is it so easy for you to be kind to people? “
“ you teach her to confuse anger with kindness. “
“ it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations. “
“ you are every hope i’ve ever had in human form. “
“ you’re everywhere except right here… and it hurts. “
“ stay strong through your pain. grow flowers from it. ”
“ i am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut. “
“ he didn’t call me beautiful first. he called me exquisite. “
“ our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry. “
“ you have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live. “
“ loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
“ do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you. “
“ i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out. “
“ how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you. “
“ why is it that when the story ends, we begin to feel all of it? “
“ i used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. “
“ you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first. “
“ i don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. “
“ the thing about writing is: I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying. “
“ i hardened under the last loss. it took something human out of me. “
“ i am water… soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away. “
“ you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful. “
“ you do not just wake up and become the butterfly. growth is a process. “
“ now, i am so strong that nothing shakes me. and all i dream is to soften. “
“ you cannot leave and have me, too. i cannot exist in two places at once. “
“ i am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer… and that will be the death of me. “
“ the kindest words my father said to me: ‘ women like you drown oceans ‘. “
“ you give and give ‘til they pull everything out of you and leave you empty. “
“ the world gives you so much pain and, here you are, making gold out of it. “
“ i have what i have and i am happy. i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy. “
“ your body is a museum of natural disasters. can you grasp how stunning that is? “
“ i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me. i want to be full on my own. “
“ if you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise. “
“ what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives? “
“ you don’t see the person they are, you see the person they have the potential to be. “
“ do not bother holding onto that thing that does not want you. you cannot make it stay. “
“ so bloom beautifully, dangerously, loudly. bloom softly, however you need. just bloom. ”
“ despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives. “
“ isn’t it such a tragic thing? when you can see it so clearly, but the other person doesn’t? “
“ i was made heavy, half blade and half silk, difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow. “
“ a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves. “
“ that is the thing about selfish people: they gamble entire beings, entire souls, to please their own. “
“ i didn’t leave because i stopped loving you, i left because the longer i stayed, the less i loved myself.”
“ i didn’t know why i split myself open for others, knowing sewing myself up hurts this much afterward… “
“ i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intelligent or brave. “
“ you might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant. “
“ 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. ”
“ i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like. when i am sad i don’t cry, i pour. when i am happy i don’t smile, i glow. when i am angry i don’t yell, i burn. “
“ 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. “
“ from now on, i will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary… not because i don’t think you’re beautiful, but because i need you to know you are more than that. “
“ nothing even matters except love and human connection. who you loved and how deeply you loved them, how you touched the people around you and how much you gave them.”
