GOODREADS: Milk and honey’ is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. ‘milk and honey’ takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

• He placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist, my hips or my lips. He didn’t call me beautiful first, he called me exquisite.
• You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.
• You’d rather have the darkest parts of him than have nothing.
• It must hurt to know I am your most beautiful regret.
• You must not have to make them want you. They must want you themselves.
• The thing worth holding on to would not have let go.
• When you are broken and he has left you, do not question whether you were enough. The problem was, you were so enough he was not able to carry it.
• I will not have you build me into your life when what I want is to build a life with you.
• I don’t want to be friends with you. I want all of you.
• Accept yourself as you were designed.
• Losing you was the becoming of myself.
• The world gives you so much pain and here you are, making gold of it.
• You must never trade honest for relatability.

To be quite honest, I was a bit disappointed. I guess, maybe because I was in complete awe of the other book, the sun and her flowers that I expected so much more from this. There are some I was able to relate with, but overall, the bookmarks can be counted. (if you know what I mean. But then again, I would still read her books. ❤