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“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“fall
in love
with your solitude”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“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, Milk and honey

“you're everywhere
except right here
and it hurts”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“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, Milk and honey

“Take pains. Be perfect.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Sorry," he eventually said, amusement tilting his deep voice. "I didn't hear him come out over the deafening sound of all the chemistry we don't have.”
― Kyra Parsi, A Deal with the Bossy Devil

“He looked at the dessert in my hands as though he’d never tried sugar before. He nodded toward it. “Chocolate?” “Arsenic.” “My favorite.”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“Do you eat?” He raised a brow, consuming that glass of green yuck in one drink. “Like, solids? Or do you blend all the children’s souls beforehand?”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.'
'I live for you,' I say sadly.
She kisses my cheek. 'Then you must live for more.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Break the chains, my love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“ 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.' ”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time. —the mourn”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“I will always choose Faye. Always. You’re my best friend, Mav. But she’s my team.”
― Devney Perry, Rally

“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, Milk and honey

“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, Milk and honey