zae ❤︎

“you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all the other loves
irrelevant”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“the rivers of punjab
flow through my bloodstream so
don’t tell me my women
aren’t as beautiful
as the ones in
your country our backs
tell stories
no books have
the spine to
carry - women of color”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
i want to be so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey