Santhosh Kumar

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

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

“Beautiful. Crushingly so. You
look like the rest of my life.”
― Beau Taplin

“What a sad thought it is, that some of us will surrender and settle down long before we have met the person we are supposed to love.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light