the sun and her flowers — wilting.

mandaloer:

these sentences were plucked from rupi kaur’s second poetry collection, the sun and her flowers. this sentence meme is part one of five, and includes lines from the first chapter of the sun and her flowers  ———  wilting.

• ❝  i have no use for you. ❞
  

• ❝  no one is coming in, and no one is going out. ❞

• ❝  you left. ❞

• ❝  i deserved someone who was willing to stay. ❞ 

• ❝  i attempted to cry you back. ❞ 

• ❝  you must be on your way. ❞

• ❝  i am okay. ❞

• ❝  no, i am angry. ❞

• ❝  i can’t move on. ❞

• ❝  it isn’t what we left behind that breaks me. it’s what we could’ve built had we stayed. ❞

• ❝  do you think flowers will grow here? ❞

• ❝  i could be anything in the world, but i wanted to be his. ❞

• ❝  you break women in like shoes. ❞

• ❝  loving you was breathing. ❞ 

• ❝  what does love look like? ❞

• ❝  i thought love looked so much like you. ❞

• ❝  i lost myself to him. ❞ 

• ❝  i think love starts here. ❞

       

• ❝  you took the sun with you when you left. ❞

• ❝  my wound became your wound. ❞

• ❝  love is a double-edged knife. ❞

• ❝  your voice alone drives me to tears. ❞

• ❝  you’re everywhere except right here and it hurts. ❞

• ❝  your absence is a missing limb. ❞

• ❝  it must be hard to live with what-ifs. ❞

• ❝  how did we live through it? ❞ 

• ❝  how are we still living? ❞

    

• ❝  don’t you lie to me. ❞

• ❝  are you angry with me? ❞

• ❝  are you okay? would you tell me if you’re not? ❞

• ❝  we were good together, weren’t we? ❞