Black Flamed Candle Books 🕯️📚’s Reviews > Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection > Status Update

“Is the past ever truly gone? Are memories a living part of me? Reconstructing, shifting, non-conforming…every day.”

“To live with incompleteness is the first lesson I learn from my wandering roots.”

“I still want to pick the fight.
That I’ve lost many times.
I want to return home crying,
to the house that has already crumbled.”

“Feeling fragmented, feeling tired, feeling invisible, feeling torn.”

“Standing at the top of a tremendous year, I dare to be soft again. All my life, I’ve tried to be protected. Be impervious. But I am soft. And I will be free. I am as I am, nothing more, nothing less.”

“I forgave someone because I could. When I couldn’t, I made sure, to remember why.
I made something. I read more.
I helped others fall in love.
It’s at times like this…I miss you so much.”

“I said, I’ll ask more questions, and look for more answers, and know there are many people in the world, that I haven’t met yet. They could hurt me, they could also love me; just like everyone else, we’ve already known.”

“My inheritance of violence, secrets, unspeakable pain…am I capable? Will its content consume me?
In my dream, I let it go…”

“I’m not afraid, even if it’s true, that there is no place for me. My home is in my heart. No one can take it away from me. I am who I am. My home is in my heart.”

It’s been three years since my mother told me she’ll never accept my sexuality. I don’t forgive her for it. It’s not okay with me-I want her acceptance. However, I’ve learnt something new, you can’t always expect people to change. I can try, but some people may never change.”