Rupi Kaur : (5) " I want to leave behind a literary legacy. " - Rupi Kaur " My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else. " - Rupi Kaur " In high school, I started saving up to get a nose job, which is so ridiculous. I had this job at Tim Hortons, and I was trying to save up $10,000 for a nose job. " - Rupi Kaur " I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear – that’s what makes it powerful. " - Rupi Kaur " With immigrant parents, they’ve had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they’re trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries. " - Rupi Kaur