The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes

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Rupi Kaur (Author of The Sun and Her Flowers)

“A lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done for ourselves” (The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes)
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“Bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled”
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“Borders are man-made
they only divide us physically
don’t let them make us
turn on each other
– we are not enemies”
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“Despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives”
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“Do you think flowers will grow here when you and i are off building something new with someone else”
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“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.”
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“I am of the earth
and to the earth I shall return once more
life and death are old friends
and I am the conversation between them
I am their late-night chatter
their laughter and tears
what is there to be afraid of
if I am the gift they give to each other
this place never belonged to me anyway
I have always been theirs”
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“I am the product of all the ancestors getting together and deciding these stories need to be told”
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“I can’t wrap my head around the fact that I have to convince half the world’s population my body is not their bed”
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“I could take the abuse I could not take the absence”
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“I do not weep
because I’m unhappy
I weep because I have everything
yet I’m unhappy”
Rupi Kaur
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“I even tried to bury myself alive
but the dirt recoiled
you have already rotted it said
there is nothing left for me to do”
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“I hardened under the last loss. It took something human out of me. i used to be so deeply emotional I’d crumble on demand. But now the water has made its exit. Of course I care about the ones around me. I’m just struggling to show it. A wall is getting in the way. I used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. Now. I am so strong. That nothing shakes me. And all I dream is to soften.”
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“I have survived far too much to go quietly
let a meteor take me
call the thunder for backup
my death will be grand
the land will crack
the sun will eat itself”
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“I hear a thousand kind words about me
and it makes no difference
yet I hear one insult
and all confidence shatters”
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“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.”
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“I notice everything I do not have
and decide it is beautiful”
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“I reached for the last bouquet of flowers you gave me now wilting in their vase one by one I popped their heads off and ate them”
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“I reduced my body to aesthetics
forgot the work it did to keep me alive
with every beat and breath
declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs
searched everywhere for a miracle
foolish enough to not realise
I was already living in one”
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“I think my body knew you would not stay”
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“I will no longer compare my path to others – i refuse to do a disservice to my life”
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“I will not subject myself to their ideology
because slut shaming is rape culture
virgin praising is rape culture”
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“I woke up thinking the work was done
I would not have to practice today
how naive to think healing was that easy
when there is no end point
no finish line to cross
healing is everyday work”
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“If I am not the love of your life
I will be the greatest loss instead.”
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“It is a blessing to be the color of earth
do you know how often flowers confuse me for home” (The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes)
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“It isn’t blood that makes you my sister
it’s how you understand my heart
as though you carry it
in your body”
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“It isn’t what we left behind
that breaks me
it’s whatever we could’ve built
had we stayed”
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“It takes monsters to steal souls
and fighters to reclaim them”
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“Learning to not envy
someone else’s blessings
is what grace looks like”
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“Let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway – all you own is yourself”
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“Life does not stop for anybody it drags you by the legs whether you want to move forward or not that is the gift”
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“Like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow”
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“Love does not look like a person
love is our actions
love is giving all we can
even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake
love is understanding
we have the power to hurt one another
but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t
love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve
and when someone shows up
saying they will provide as you do
but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you
love is knowing whom to choose”
Rupi Kaur
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“Love is understanding we have the power to hurt one another but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don’t”
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“My god
is not as unreachable as
they’d like you to think
my god is beating inside us infinitely”
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“Perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search for a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries”
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“Representation is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
unable to see itself
will keep trying to become the moth”
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“Sometimes though
love will hurt you but
love will never mean to
love will play no games
cause love knows life
has been hard enough already”
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“Sometimes
I stop myself from
saying the words out loud
as if leaving my mouth too often
might wear them down”
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“Tell them I was the warmest place you knew and you turned me cold”
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“The day you have everything
I hope you remember
when you had nothing”
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“The hummingbirds tell me
you’ve changed your hair
I tell them I don’t care
while listening to them
describe every detail”
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“The right one does not
stand in your way
they make space for you
to step forward”
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“The universe took its time on you
Crafted you to offer the world
Something different from everyone else
When you doubt
How you were created
You doubt an energy greater than us both”
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“The way you speak of yourself
the way you degrade yourself
into smallness
is abuse”
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“There are mountains growing
beneath our feet
that cannot be contained
all we’ve endured
has prepared us for this
bring your hammer and fists
we have a glass ceiling to shatter”
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“They leave
and act like it never happened
they come back
and act like they never left”
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“This morning
I told the flowers
what I’d do for you
and they blossomed”
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“Together we are an endless conversation”
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“We might not hear it at times but the music is always on. It just need to turned louder.”
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“What can I do to make this mountain taller so the women after me can see farther”
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“What if there isn’t enough time to give her what she deserves do you think if i begged the sky hard enough my mother’s soul would return to me as my daughter so i can give her the comfort she gave me my whole life” (The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes)
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“What if
there isn’t enough time
to give her what she deserves
do you think
if I begged the sky hard enough
my mother’s soul would
return to me as my daughter
so I can give her
the comfort she gave me
my whole life”
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“What is stronger
than the human heart
which shatters over and over
and still lives”
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“What is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not”
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“What love looks like

what does love look like the therapist asks
one week after the breakup
and i’m not sure how to answer her question
except for the fact that i thought love
looked so much like you

That’s when it hit me
and i realized how naive i had been
to place an idea so beautiful on the image of a person
as if anybody on this entire earth
could encompass all love represented
as if this emotion seven billion people tremble for
would look like a five foot eleven
medium-sized brown-skinned guy
who likes eating frozen pizza for breakfast

What does love look like the therapist asks again
this time interrupting my thoughts midsentence
and at this point i’m about to get up
and walk right out the door
except i paid too much money for this hour
so instead i take a piercing look at her
the way you look at someone
when you’re about to hand it to them
lips pursed tightly preparing to launch into conversation
eyes digging deeply into theirs
searching for all the weak spots
they have hidden somewhere
hair being tucked behind the ears
as if you have to physically prepare for a conversation
on the philosophies or rather disappointments
of what love looks like

Well i tell her
i don’t think love is him anymore
if love was him
he would be here wouldn’t he
if he was the one for me
wouldn’t he be the one sitting across from me
if love was him it would have been simple
i don’t think love is him anymore i repeat
i think love never was
i think i just wanted something
was ready to give myself to something
i believed was bigger than myself
and when i saw someone
who probably fit the part
i made it very much my intention
to make him my counterpart

And i lost myself to him
he took and he took
wrapped me in the word special
until i was so convinced he had eyes only to see me
hands only to feel me
a body only to be with me
oh how he emptied me

How does that make you feel
interrupts the therapist
well i said
it kind of makes me feel like shit

Maybe we’re looking at it wrong
we think it’s something to search for out there
something meant to crash into us
on our way out of an elevator
or slip into our chair at a cafe somewhere
appear at the end of an aisle at the bookstore
looking the right amount of sexy and intellectual
but i think love starts here
everything else is just desire and projection
of all our wants needs and fantasies
but those externalities could never work out
if we didn’t turn inward and learn
how to love ourselves in order to love other people

Love does not look like a person
love is our actions
love is giving all we can
even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake
love is understanding
we have the power to hurt one another
but we are going to do everything in our power
to make sure we don’t
love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve
and when someone shows up
saying they will provide it as you do
but their actions seem to break you
rather than build you
love is knowing who to choose”
Rupi Kaur
The Sun and Her Flowers

“When death
takes my hand
i will hold you with the other
and promise to find you
in every lifetime”
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“When it came to listening
my mother taught me silence
if you are drowning their voice with yours
how will you hear them she asked
when it came to speaking
she said do it with commitment
every word you say
is your own responsibility
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
when it came to choosing
she asked me to be thankful
for the choices I had that
she never had the privilege of making
– lessons from mumma”
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“When my daughter is living in my belly i will speak to her like she’s already changed the world she will walk out of me on a red carpet fully equipped with the knowledge that she’s capable of anything she sets her mind to”
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“When the moon rises on this coast
but the sun still burns shamelessly on yours
I crumble knowing even our skies are different”
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“When the world comes crashing at
your feet
it’s okay to let others
help pick up the pieces
if we’re present to take part in your
happiness
when your circumstances are great
we are more than capable
of sharing your pain”
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“Why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don’t look like them I tell her”
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“Why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
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“Wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who’ve been unkind to you and keep moving forward – this will free you both”
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“Yesterday
when I woke up
the sun fell to the ground and rolled away
flowers beheaded themselves
all that’s left alive here is me
and I barely feel like living” (The Sun and Her Flowers Quotes)
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“You are a mirror
if you continue to starve yourself of love
you’ll only meet people who’ll starve you too
if you soak yourself in love
the universe will hand you those
who’ll love you too”
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“You ask
if we can still be friends
I explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves”
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“You call me to tell me you miss me
I turn to face the front door of the house
waiting for a knock
days later you call to say you need me
but still aren’t here
the dandelions on the lawn
are rolling their eyes in disappointment
the grass has declared you yesterday’s news
what do I care
if you love me
or miss me
or need me
when you aren’t doing anything about it
if I’m not the love of your life
I’ll be the greatest loss instead”
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“You cannot walk in and out of me like a revolving door i have too many miracles happening inside me to be your convenient option – not your hobby”
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