ROSHUNDA

“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. In time, the fiction we scribble onto a person falls away, the lies we tell ourselves unravel and soon the person standing in front of you is almost unrecognisable, you are now complete strangers in your own love. And what a terrible shame it is. My advice: pay attention to the small details of people, you will learn that the universe is far more spectacular an author than we could ever hope to be.”
― Beau Taplin

“Everyone you meet has a part to play in your story. And while some may take a chapter, others a paragraph, and most will be no more than scribbled notes in the margins, someday, you'll meet someone who will become so integral to your life, you'll put their name in the title.”
― Beau Taplin

“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

“Sadly, too many of us stay together
far longer than we should

because it's easier to say, "I love you,"
than it is to say, "I don't.”
― Beau Taplin, Worlds of You: Poetry & Prose