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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It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

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

Other women’s bodies are not our battle grounds.

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

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You are the faint line between faith and blindly waiting.

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.

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

People go but how they left always stays

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.