Quotes from Beau Taplin

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.

I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

Self love is an oceanand your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill overinto the lives of the peopleyou hold dear. But you must come first.

A good friend will not just tell you it's all going to be fine. A good friend will tell you it's all really fucked and the next few months will be hell but will phone in for pizza, pour her best liquor, and say, 'You will not face this hell alone.'

Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.

I think the beating in our hearts was put there to remind us that even when we are alone in the world, we march on. That even in the enormous dark and quiet, we always have someone to lean on, to embrace and turn to. That even when we have no one else, we always have ourselves.