21 Quotes by Beau Taplin

People are oceans. You cannot know them by their surface.

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.

While maturity may bring you wisdom and strength,  it is the playful, curious child in you that makes the world magic,  that makes a life enchanting and worth living at all.

I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, the be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.

The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.

It's been a long, hard road, but I've finally found the closure I need to move on. I've learned to accept that my all is not always going to be enough and love is neither owned nor earned; it either is or it's not. I gave you the world, but you wanted the stars.

Some goodbyes are not ends but releases.

Often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they really are. The rest we make up for ourselves. Rather than listen, or learn, we smother them in who we imagine them to be, what we desire for ourselves. We create little fantasies of people and let them grow in our hearts. And this is where the relationship fails.

I think I keep telling myselfyou never loved me at allbecause it is far less terrifyinga prospect than the possibilityyou did, you really, trulydid, but all of a sudden, and forno particular reason,you woke up one day and stopped.