Ella

“When it came to being
she said be tender and tough at once
you need to be vulnerable to live fully
but rough enough to survive it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Sometimes
I stop myself from
saying the words out loud
as if leaving my mouth too often
might wear them down

- I love you”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments. feelings. people. flowers. i learned love is about giving. everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft. i learned all things come in twos. life and death. pain and joy. salt and sugar. me and you. it is the balance of the universe. it has been the year of hurting so bad but living so good. making friends out of strangers. making strangers out of friends. learning mint chocolate chip ice cream will fix just about everything. and for the pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms. we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world. for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate parts of ourselves.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers