📚 The Sun and Her Flowers
| Author: | Rupi Kaur |
| Year of release: | 2017 |
| Genre: | Poetry , Feminism |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Average WPM: | 120 |
| Date Started/Finished: | 8 March 2022 |
| Time took: | 2.14 Hours |
About the book
What I Liked About It
The chapter names
How I Discovered It
Found it as a recommendation when I searched up about other poetry books
Who Should Read It?
Whoever has an interest in Poetry and Feminism
Top Quotes
it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me it’s what we could’ve built had we stayed
this place makes me the kind of exhausted that has nothing to do with sleep and everything to do with the people around me - introvert
i do not weep because i’m unhappy i weep because i have everything yet i am unhappy
nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway
the way you speak of yourself the way you degrade yourself into smallness is abuse
even if they’ve been separated they’ll end up together you can’t keep lovers apart no matter how much i pluck and pull them my eyebrows always find their way back to each other
it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already
Summary + Notes
Wilting
it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me it’s what we could’ve built had we stayed
i knew i was beating a dead thing but did it matter if the thing was dead when at the very least i had it - addiction
day by day i realize everything i miss about you was never there in the first place - the person i fell in love with was a mirage
you ask if we can still be friends i explain how a honeybee does not dream of kissing the mouth of a flower and then settle for its leaves - i don’t need more friends
Falling
i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative
it felt like you threw me so far from myself i’ve been trying to find my way back ever since
this place makes me the kind of exhausted that has nothing to do with sleep and everything to do with the people around me - Introvert
you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - Growth is a process
how can i verbalize consent as an adult if i was never taught to as a child
despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers
if we’re present to take part in your happiness when your circumstances are great we are more than capable of sharing your pain
i do not weep because i’m unhappy i weep because i have everything yet i am unhappy
nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway
yes it is possible to hate and love someone at the same time i do it to myself every day
the way you speak of yourself the way you degrade yourself into smallness is abuse
what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives
you have so much but are always hungry for more stop looking up at everything you don’t have and look around at everything you do - where the satisfaction lives
Rooting
in the world so infinite they could never use a full stop
Blooming
to hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice
even if they’ve been separated they’ll end up together you can’t keep lovers apart no matter how much i pluck and pull them my eyebrows always find their way back to each other
it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already