Top 40 Tal Bauer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love you. I will always love you. Thank you for telling me, baby. I’m happy for you, and I hope you’re happy you told me.”

— Tal Bauer

2. “When you love someone, really love them, you’ll do anything. Figure anything out. Because having them in your life is worth more to you than living without them. That’s how I felt about Ethan.”

— Tal Bauer

3. “You mean everything to me.” My words hung between us. “You are everything to me. So let’s do this. Let’s really do this.”

— Tal Bauer

4. “Until the stars fall away, and you are reborn in the ashes of new stars, and your elements are scattered and reformed a hundred million more times. That is how long your love and you will be together.”

— Tal Bauer

5. “Nietzsche once said, Beware when fighting monsters, you do not become a monster yourself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you.”

— Tal Bauer

6. “Never let anyone else define who you are. They will always get it wrong. Never settle for that.”

— Tal Bauer

7. “A thousand million stars in the sky would not be enough to count the ways I love you. Or grains of sand on the beach, even if you split every grain in half.”

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8. “Teach me how to touch you. How to make love to you. Tell me what you need.”

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9. “When I am with you, I feel parts of myself come together. Parts I thought couldn’t ever mix. You make me want to be everything I am. For you.”

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10. “Tears burned down his skin, fresh rivers that fell from his chin and soaked his shirt. “I will always be waiting for you,” he forced out in a whisper. “Always.”

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11. “A child can unlove you. A child can look at you and find you wanting, realize you’re not great, not wonderful. Parents don’t get a free pass on a lifetime of love. Blood loyalty doesn’t run upstream. If you’re a terrible parent, there’s no obligation for your child to love you after the nightmares you’ve put them through. A child’s love is hard-fought, hard-won. You have to earn it.”

— Tal Bauer

12. “Sometimes one single life is what makes everything in this world livable.”

— Tal Bauer

13. “From the moment we met, it’s been like I’ve known you for forever. Like everything in me is supposed to belong to everything in you.”

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14. “Failure lived inside me like an organ. I could feel it pumping alongside my heart. Keeping me alive, even when I didn’t want it to.”

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15. “You are the gradations of undiscovered colors in my soul. You are the inhale before my blank canvas, the moment before my pencil touches the page. You are the manifestation of my dreams. You are my intensity.”

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16. “The Quran says all souls were created in pairs. One soul, one life, that was meant for two people. In this world, we’re supposed to find the other half of our souls and join together with them. Rejoin, and find the house of peace that we once knew before time.” David moved closer. “I feel that with you. I always have. From the moment we met, it’s been like I’ve known you for forever. Like everything in me is supposed to belong to everything in you.”

— Tal Bauer

17. “I will spend eternity Figuring out how to take the stars from the sky And spread them like sand scattered at your feet.”

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18. “You knew him once inside a star. You know him again now, on Earth. You will know him again in the future, in another form. Your love is imprinted on this universe, in all its intricacies, all its perfections, its imperfections, all the ways it twists and turns. And when you reach the end of time, your love will still be there with you. Because he is of you, and you are of him. And you will always be you.”

— Tal Bauer

19. “It’s hard to live in this world, son,” the old man said. “Some days are harder than others. But they even out, in the end. Eventually.”

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20. “Never let anyone else define your life, Kris. Never let anyone else define who you are. They will always get it wrong. Never settle for that.”

— Tal Bauer

21. “But his tower was in a lake, an ocean, an ocean made of tears, tears of all the men in all the years, decades, centuries before him, who had their dreams crushed, their lives destroyed, when someone found out their Secret.”

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22. “Kris, my love. My soul. We were united before time, made for each other. We will never part, not in this life or the next. Wherever I am, I will always be yours. I swear it.”

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23. “Every atom of you was created in the heart of a star, Sasha. Yours and your love’s, created in the same moment, of the same atom, and then scattered for a billion years. The calcium in your cheek bone, the iron in the blood that pumps faster through your heart when you see your love. The eyes you see with, that bears the image of your beloved on every micron of your cells.”

— Tal Bauer

24. “Shea,” I started again. My voice cracked, wavered. “You are every dream I didn’t know I had, and every future I never knew I wanted, come true. I didn’t know it was possible to be this happy, or to love life this fully. Loving you has changed everything. Now, my future is yours, and my hopes and dreams are tied tight to your hopes and dreams.”

— Tal Bauer

25. “He wanted the world to be the color of his dreams, wanted to paint in primary colors.”

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26. “I will return to you, Seryozha. I will return to you in any way I can, even if that is only dust and atoms when my orbit decays and I fracture apart, my body burning through the sky as my soul tumbles free. I will gather my ashes and bring them down to you, wipe your tears and kiss your lips with what is left of me. And I will nestle in your hands and live there for the rest of your life. Until you are dust once more and we are together again, our particles conjoined until they are one.”

— Tal Bauer

27. “I never knew I was chasing something Until I couldn’t catch you in my dreams Oh, I see you at midnight And I wish I could reach you I wish I could tell you I wish I was enough for you –.”

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28. “Damn midwestern men!”

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29. “I love these books. I can’t even explain how much I love them.”

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30. “But if I could cut my failure out, would there be anything left of me? I was a man born to be lonely. Maybe my first mistake had been trying to live my life. Maybe it would have been better if I was nothing but a memory, a chewed-off curse and a no-good man who’d run out on his woman and his child. What did that say about someone, that their life might be better if they’d never been a part of it at all?”

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31. “If there’s a transferrable skill from hockey to real life, sweeping and mopping are it.”

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32. “I thought ‘Kris’ meant the moon. It was the saddest word in a language I didn’t know.”

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33. “Your hair is very stylish.” Haddad winked. “But I promise you. You’re going to want this. It’s only going to get colder.” Cheeks burning, Kris took the beanie.”

— Tal Bauer

34. “Is this what falling in love really is? Discovering pieces of yourself inside another person? Finding that half of your heart lives within another?”

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35. “I want to live. I want to be me.”

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36. “Let me take you on your first date with a man, Noah.” He held out his hand.”

— Tal Bauer

37. “Coming out isn’t a one time thing. It’s every person for the rest of your life. It’s thinking twice about who you should let close and who you shouldn’t.”

— Tal Bauer

38. “When had his back been broken? When had his seventeen-year-old passion been snuffed? Was it his professor’s words? Or was it the hundreds, thousands, millions of side-eyed glares and breathless sneers, the looks that promised a beating, a killing, if he only waited around for the pleasure. The news that told him every day he was worth less than all others. He was expendable. He wasn’t worth saving. His life was measured in statistics, in timescales and chances and tsks and sighs.”

— Tal Bauer

39. “But if I could cut my failure out, would there be anything left of me?”

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40. “A kiss from him, a shimmy-shake of his body against mine – clothed or not – and I’d need a whole harmonica of cigarettes to come back down to earth.”

— Tal Bauer

41. “Let me write you a love story.”

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42. “Wyatt laughed. The sound fell over his shoulders and through me and into the wind. If I’d been brave enough to turn around, I might have seen it tumbling on the waves.”

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43. “It did something to a man when his hopes and dreams, and the life he’d carefully planned, collapsed. Were ripped away. It left him raw, and aching, and hollow in a place inside himself he could never reach.”

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44. “How was it possible to feel this much love for someone? His heart felt like ten hearts, or a thousand, all beating as one, all burning incandescent with love for Jack.”

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45. “He’d learned early to carve and mold and cover the parts of himself that didn’t fit into the world. Keep the fractals of himself hidden, the way he came up at harsh angles to everyone else. He was a kaleidoscope, shifting and changing in the light. What was true was kept in the shadows, the same shadows that lived in his bones, that covered the memories of praying beside his father in the sunlight, murmuring the Quran.”

— Tal Bauer