THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS (rupi kaur) starter sentences
‘i deserve someone who is willing to stay.’
‘it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me it’s what we could have built had we stayed.‘
‘do you think flowers will grow here?‘
‘something is better than nothing.’
‘i thought love looked so much like you.’
‘maybe we are all looking at it wrong.’
‘love does not look like a person. love is action. love is giving all we can.‘
‘you will suffer the way you make me suffer.’
‘tell me, is there anything i can do?‘
‘how in the world did we get there?‘
‘how do we live through it?‘
‘i can tell when you are lying.’
‘we were good together, weren’t we?‘
‘i will be your greatest loss.’
‘they leave and act like it never happened.’
‘you will make it to the end.’
‘it took something human out of me.’
‘i used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me.‘
‘you are waiting for someone who is not coming back.‘
‘i decorate my body in gold.’
‘i wash yesterday out of my hair.’
‘i was the warmest place and you turned me cold.’
‘the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time.’
‘this place makes me that kind of exhausted that has everything to do with the people around me.’
‘like the rainbow after the rain joy will reveal itself after the sorrow.’
‘i try to rot into the earth below my feet.’
‘i must have done something terrible to deserve this.’
‘i will not subject myself to their ideology.’
‘nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you.’
‘i am both the poison and the antidote.’
‘i was not given the breath in my lungs to choke it out.’
‘what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives?’
‘you can imitate a light like mine, but you cannot become it.’
‘and here you are living despite it all.’
‘every word you say is your own responsibility .’
‘you need to be vulnerable to live but rough enough to survive it all.’
‘i am sorry this world could not keep you save.’
‘sacrificing yourself is not how you must show love.’
‘it was the happiest i had ever seen you.’
‘it looked like the life had been drained out of you.’
‘when they buried me alive i dug my way out of the ground.’
‘the rest of the city slept while we sat awakened.’
‘i have lost the best thing to have happened.’
‘i am solar systems away from you.’
‘the earth has waited its whole life for this.’
‘i am made of water. of course i am emotional.’
‘when death takes my hand i will hold you with the other.’
‘vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold.’
‘mint chocolate chip ice cream will fix just about everything.’
‘if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to ourselves?’
‘life and death are old friends and i am the conversation between them.’
‘to hate is an easy lazy thing. to love takes strength.‘
‘trust your body. it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does.’
‘the day you have everything i hope you remember the day when you had nothing.’
‘it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already.’
‘you already have everything you need within yourself.’
‘you can keep your lies.’
‘they threw us in a pit to end each other.’
‘this is the legacy we’ll leave behind.‘
‘i love you too much to remain quiet as you weep.‘
