Rutaba Intikhab

“I hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet i hear one insult
and all confidence shatters

- focusing on the negative”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“they did not tell me it would hurt like this no one warned me about the heartbreak we experience with friends where are the albums i thought there were no songs sung for it i could not find the ballads or read the books dedicated to writing the grief we fall into when friends leave it is the type of heartache that does not hit you like a tsunami it is a slow cancer the kind that does not show up for months has no visible signs is an ache here a headache there but manageable cancer or tsunami it all ends the same a friend or a lover a loss is a loss is a loss - the underrated heartache”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

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

“tell them i was the warmest place you knew and you turned me cold”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers