Buried Light Quotes

“Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I am awfully sentimental. Of books, belongings, people, places. It matters very little how positive or negative the experience was. If it shared some meaningful time in my life, I’ll have trouble letting go.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“It hurts my head to think of how many things had to happen for our paths to intersect. Of all those numberless little fortunes that led me to you. A broken alarm clock, a delayed train, a sudden downpour, and there we were. You and I, sharing coffee, our whole lives ahead of us.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“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

“I’ve always been enchanted by the endings of things. Series finales and sunsets. Last paragraphs and encores. I think for the way they remind me that losing something you love isn’t always sad and heartbreaking, but sometimes breathtaking and beautiful.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I think the beating in our hearts was put there to remind us that even when we are alone in the world, we march on. That even in the enormous dark and quiet, we always have someone to lean on, to embrace and turn to. That even when we have no one else, we always have ourselves.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I will never ask you to fight for me. I have neither the insecurity nor the arrogance to believe that wars must be won and lost to earn or keep my love.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I had learned even loneliness could leave an absence if it had lived in you long enough.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light

“I am awfully sentimental.
Of books, belongings,
people, places.
It matters very little
how positive or negative
the experience was.
If it shared something meaningful
time in my life, I'll
have trouble letting go.”
― Beau Taplin, Buried Light