Sign in with Facebook
beau
https://www.goodreads.com/beau
to-read
(178)
currently-reading (11)
read (354)
did-not-finish (0)
poetry (74)
organizing-politics-race-class (57)
business-self-development (46)
currently-reading (11)
read (354)
did-not-finish (0)
poetry (74)
organizing-politics-race-class (57)
business-self-development (46)
fiction
(30)
gender-and-sexuality (30)
half-read (23)
sacred (17)
writing (13)
favorites (12)
herbalism (12)
gender-and-sexuality (30)
half-read (23)
sacred (17)
writing (13)
favorites (12)
herbalism (12)
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
―
―
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right into through if the skin wasn’t trying to keep them out, to keep them here, on the other side of the theater where the curtain keeps rising. I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air. I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for a while, and stumbled back out. I made this place for you. A place for to love me. If this isn’t a kingdom then I don’t know what is.”
― Crush
― Crush
beau’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at beau’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,491 books
|
96 friends
9,876 books
|
470 friends
1,042 books
|
114 friends
81 books
|
79 friends
5,884 books
|
215 friends
2,186 books
|
316 friends
1,706 books
|
375 friends
540 books
|
78 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by beau
Lists liked by beau
