Tal Bauer > Quotes

“I will tear apart the planet. Cross continents, oceans…” He shrugged. “Nothing will keep me from him. And nothing will stop me from protecting him. I’ll die for him. In a heartbeat.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemies of the State

“You are the gradations of undiscovered colors in my soul. You are the inhale before my blank canvas, the moment before my pencil touches the page. You are the manifestation of my dreams. You are my intensity.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“Never let anyone else define your life, Kris. Never let anyone else define who you are. They will always get it wrong. Never settle for that.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“A child can unlove you. A child can look at you and find you wanting, realize you’re not great, not wonderful. Parents don’t get a free pass on a lifetime of love. Blood loyalty doesn’t run upstream. If you’re a terrible parent, there’s no obligation for your child to love you after the nightmares you’ve put them through. A child’s love is hard-fought, hard-won. You have to earn it.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“He wanted the world to be the color of his dreams, wanted to paint in primary colors.”
― Tal Bauer, Hush

“Is this what falling in love really is? Discovering pieces of yourself inside another person? Finding that half of your heart lives within another?”
― Tal Bauer, Gravity

“Failure lived inside me like an organ. I could feel it pumping alongside my heart. Keeping me alive, even when I didn’t want it to.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“Never let anyone else define who you are. They will always get it wrong. Never settle for that.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“It's like I can't escape him. Et non, I do not want to. He can trap me in his gravity pour toujours.”
― Tal Bauer, Gravity

“The Quran says all souls were created in pairs. One soul, one life, that was meant for two people. In this world, we’re supposed to find the other half of our souls and join together with them. Rejoin, and find the house of peace that we once knew before time.” David moved closer. “I feel that with you. I always have. From the moment we met, it’s been like I’ve known you for forever. Like everything in me is supposed to belong to everything in you.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“I will spend eternity Figuring out how to take the stars from the sky And spread them like sand scattered at your feet”
― Tal Bauer, Gravity

“Nietzsche once said, Beware when fighting monsters, you do not become a monster yourself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“Kris, my love. My soul. We were united before time, made for each other. We will never part, not in this life or the next. Wherever I am, I will always be yours. I swear it.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“But if I could cut my failure out, would there be anything left of me?”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“None of us do. Being a parent is like driving a car without brakes. You grip the wheel and hold on tight, pray you don’t crash too hard.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“Faisal, say it. Please, say it.” Adam scooted close and pressed their faces together. Memories flickered through his mind like photographs falling to the floor. The night they met, the music playing beneath the tent on the beach, and the sweet honey taste of luqaymat. Peaches on Faisal’s lips, the warmth of his skin, Subhanallah, Faisal was always so warm, like he carried the sun within his soul. Feeling sand beneath his knees and sliding through his fingers. “Please. I want this. I want to be by your side for all eternity. Please, Faisal. Maa shaa Allah.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“Teach me how to touch you. How to make love to you. Tell me what you need.”
― Tal Bauer, Hush

“I don’t want to be a one-night stand again,” Cole blurted out. “I don’t want to sleep with you and have to pretend it didn’t happen. I don’t want you to run away again.” I don’t want you to throw me away again. “I want…” He stumbled. Hesitated. “I want this to mean something to you. Because it does to me.”
― Tal Bauer, The Murder Between Us

“I never thought that I would feel this way for a man. But I do. I want you, Ethan. And now I have to figure out what to do about that.” He crossed his arms and shifted across his feet. “I want to figure out how to make this work. Together. I want to try, Ethan. Because…” A pause, as Ethan felt his heart burst. “Because when you truly fall for someone, you have to be willing to try anything to make that work. So I am asking you… Can we figure this out? Can we make this work?”
― Tal Bauer, Enemies of the State

“When God designed your features and joined your brows/ Paved my way, then trapped me with your gestures & bows/ United the knots of my doing and of my budding heart/ Fate convinced me to be enslaved to thee.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy of My Enemy

“I didn’t think you were gay, though. Sir.”
Jack shook his head. “I’m not.”
Daniels frowned.
“I don’t consider myself gay. Being with Ethan wasn’t some kind of realization of who I was deep inside. It wasn’t a…yearning of my hidden gay man, buried deep.” Jack frowned and rubbed Ethan’s shirt between his fingers. He hadn’t spoken of this to anyone, not even Ethan. They’d carefully avoided any talk at all about Jack’s sexuality, and what it all meant. “It was just me falling in love,” Jack finally said. “And figuring out how to make that work with Ethan.”
“I’m not sure I could be with a dude. No matter how I felt about him.”
Jack smiled. “When you love someone, really love them, you’ll do anything. Figure anything out. Because having them in your life is worth more to you than living without them. That’s how I felt about Ethan.”
― Tal Bauer

“A thousand million stars in the sky would not be enough to count the ways I love you. Or grains of sand on the beach, even if you split every grain in half.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“Coming out isn’t a one time thing. It’s every person for the rest of your life. It’s thinking twice about who you should let close and who you shouldn’t.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“His chin quivered as the tears threatened to spill again. Fuck. He didn’t think a human being could cry this much.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemies of the State

“He could make his world shades of white and pale, shades of sucking up and always trying to fit in, shades of never being enough, and being told, in a thousand, million, tiny ways, that he would never, ever fit in, no matter how hard he tried. Fuck that. He’d take his discrimination to his face, thank you very much. The world would acknowledge him. Somehow.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“I want to live. I want to be me.”
― Tal Bauer, Hush

“But if I could cut my failure out, would there be anything left of me? I was a man born to be lonely. Maybe my first mistake had been trying to live my life. Maybe it would have been better if I was nothing but a memory, a chewed-off curse and a no-good man who’d run out on his woman and his child. What did that say about someone, that their life might be better if they’d never been a part of it at all?”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“From the moment we met, it’s been like I’ve known you for forever. Like everything in me is supposed to belong to everything in you.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“It’s hard to live in this world, son,” the old man said. “Some days are harder than others. But they even out, in the end. Eventually.”
― Tal Bauer, The Quarterback

“When I am with you, I feel parts of myself come together. Parts I thought couldn’t ever mix. You make me want to be everything I am. For you.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper