1. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
2. “I don’t want to die without any scars.”
3. “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
4. “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
5. “You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.”
6. “You are not special.”
7. “You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
8. “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
9. “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
10. “Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
11. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
12. “Everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
13. “We’ve all been raised believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t.”
14. “Don’t you have other things to do?”
15. “Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic.”
16. “You have been warned.”
17. “If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
18. “It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
19. “If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
20. “Why did I cause so much pain?”
21. “The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”
22. “Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
23. “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
24. “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
25. “We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
26. “The girl is infectious human waste.”
27. “I want to destroy everything beautiful I’ll never have.”
28. “On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
29. “If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”
30. “It is like you’re never really awake; but you’re never really asleep.”
31. “Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”
32. “A moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
33. “The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on.”
34. “You have to give up!”
35. “Reject the basic assumptions of civilisation, especially the importance of material possessions.”
36. “Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.”
37. “You have to realise that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless.”
38. “A tiger can smile. A snake will say it loves you.”
39. “Lies make us evil.”
40. “If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”
41. “You always kill the one you love.”
42. “Maybe we should always assume the worst.”
43. “Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
44. “Which is worse: Hell or nothing?”
45. “A minute of perfection is worth the effort.”
46. “You’re going to die, tonight. You might die in one second or in one hour, you decide.”
47. “Lie to me. Tell me the first thing off the top of your head. Make something up.”
48. “I don’t give a shit. I have a gun.”
49. “I know who you are. I know where you live.”
50. “Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your life.”
51. “My philosophy of life is that I can die at any moment. And the tragedy of my life is that I do not.”
52. “Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you.”
53. “There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.”
54. “We just had a near-life experience.”
55. “If people think you are dying, they give you their full attention. They listen instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.”
56. “I am nothing, and not even that.”
57. “This isn’t really death. —- We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.”
58. “Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go.”
59. “The amazing miracle of death, when one second you’re walking and talking, and the next second you’re an object.”
60. “Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved.”

Manners // Icona Pop

Rupi Kaur (born 5 October 1992) is a Canadian poet, writer, illustrator and performer. She published a book of poetry and prose entitled milk and honey in 2015. The book deals with themes of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. milk and honey has sold over a million copies, reaching #1 and spending over a year on the New York Times bestsellers list. (source)

• How is it so easy for you to be kind to people? 
• He was the first boy to teach me my body was for giving to those that wanted.
• You have been taught your legs are a pit stop for for men that need to rest. A vacant body empty enough for guests, but no one ever comes and is willing to stay. 
• It is your blood in my veins. How am I supposed to forget?
• You were so afraid of my voice, I decided to be afraid of it too.
• Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love, you teach her to confuse anger with kindness. 
• I’ve had sex, but I don’t know what making love feels like. 
• If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that are not. 
• The idea that we are so capable of love, but still choose to be toxic…
• The ___ will tear you in half, but it will not end you. 
• You have sadness living in places sadness shouldn’t live. 
• A daughter should not have to beg her father for a relationship. 
• Trying to convince myself I should take up space is like writing with my left hand when I was born to use my right. 
• The idea of shrinking is hereditary. 
• You tell me to quiet down because my opinions make me less beautiful. 
• 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. 
• Your mother is in the habit of offering more love than you can carry. 
• You are a war: the border between two countries, the collateral damage. 
• The art of being empty is simple. 
• The only reason you know you’re still alive is from the heaving of your chest. 
• You look just like your mother. You both have the same eyes—and the hands. 
• You look just like your mother. 
• You both have the same eyes—and the hands.
• I guess I do carry her tenderness well. 
• But your rage… Your mother doesn’t wear that anger. 
• The rage is the one thing I get from my father. 
• The women in my family learned to live with their mouths closed. 
• You always call to say nothing in particular. You ask what I’m doing or where I am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us, I scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going. 
• I don’t blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. 

At parties I’d shout I’m frantic, and you? Like a fire, hungry and resisting containment,