Milk and Honey Quotes

Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival, written by Canadian poet Rupi Kaur. The #1 New York Times Bestseller book is about the experience of love, violence, loss, abuse, and femininity. Milk and Honey is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. Rupi Kaur’s book takes the readers on a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because according to Kaur, “there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.”

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Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading aloud to me—the perfect date.

Rupi Kaur

It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

Rupi Kaur

If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise.

Rupi Kaur

The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.

Rupi Kaur

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Other women’s bodies are not our battle grounds.

Rupi Kaur

I am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away

Rupi Kaur

You are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting.

Rupi Kaur

For you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can’t help but
see it everywhere.

Rupi Kaur

Don’t mistake salt for sugar. If he wants to be with you he will. It’s that simple.

Rupi Kaur

People go but how they left always stays

Rupi Kaur

You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant.

Rupi Kaur

How you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you.

Rupi Kaur

The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.

Rupi Kaur

Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry—women of color.

Rupi Kaur

How easy is it for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered cause people have not been kind to me.

Rupi Kaur

Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.

Rupi Kaur

You were so afraid of my voice I decided to be afraid of it too.

Rupi Kaur

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.

Rupi Kaur

It takes monsters to steal souls and fighters to reclaim them.

Rupi Kaur

I am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut.

Rupi Kaur

If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not.

Rupi Kaur

If you have a copy of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, you will notice that every word she has crafted in the book is the perfect representation of love, pain, violence, and abuse in the world. We have seen it through the eyes and experience of a woman. Perfect for those who you think some words of inspiration in their life, these 10 Milk and Honey quotes will surely inspire your friends, family, and loved ones.

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