Milk and Honey is a collection of both abstract fiction and non-fiction poetry and prose by Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur.

Milk And Honey Book Quotes

1. “i am water
soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away.”

2. “i am hopelessly
a lover and
a dreamer and
that will be the
death of me.”

3. “my heart woke me crying last night
how can i help i begged
my heart said
write the book.”

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

5. “how is it so easy 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.”

6. “i have
what i have
and i am happy
i’ve lost
what i’ve lost
and i am
still
happy
– outlook.”

7. “if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise.”

8. “stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom.”

9. “the world gives you so much pain
and here you are making gold out of it
– there is nothing purer than that.”

10. “love will come
and when love comes
love will hold you
love will call your name
and you will melt
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.”

11. “do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you.”

12. “you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal.”

13. “you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out i was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow.”

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

15. “how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you.”

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

17. “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.”

18. “i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut.”

19. “you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once
– when you ask if we can still be friends.”

20. “people go but how they left always stays.”