Beau Taplin

It was a privilege to love you, and it was a privilege to let you go. Both helped shape me into the person I have become.

Beau Taplin

I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.

Beau Taplin

I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.

Beau Taplin

I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.

Beau Taplin

One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.

Beau Taplin, Hunting Season

It’s sad isn’t it? I once thought worlds of you and now you’re just another lesson.

Beau Taplin, The Lesson

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin, Temples

“We don’t mean to hurt each other but we do, and perhaps no matter how right we are for each other, we’ll always be a little too wrong.”

- Beau Taplin . W i t h o u t I n t e n t

To be touched - truly touched - that’s what I’m looking for. To unfold at a brush of skin like a rare flower blooming. To be surfaced at the curl of fingertips around my soul. I am so tired of shallow fun. I want my heart to shudder at a touch, to whisper, “here, here, it’s all yours.

Beau Taplin

I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.

Beau Taplin

Listen, I love you. It's that clear, that simple. And I know sometimes I can be a disappointment, that I rarely know what I want or think before I act, but you should know that in half a lifetime of spectacular messes, you are the very first thing that's felt right.

— Beau Taplin

There are worlds in you, and I have fallen in love with every one.

Beau Taplin

Take care of your loved ones, particularly when they are doing everything in their power to push you away. A broken heart, like a wounded beast, will often lash out at those it is nearest, but that does not mean they don’t need you.

Beau Taplin

I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.

Beau Taplin

I just want someone who will love me. when I do not know how to love myself.

Beau Taplin, “Priorities”