I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present – it gives weight and dimension to our very existence.
LANG LEAVLike time suspended, a wound unmended – you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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I don’t know how you are so familiar to me-or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before-in another time, a different place, some other existence.
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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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You are a writer bleeding words onto a page. And the ones who hate you will trample on that page. And the ones who love you will cut you, to keep you bleeding.
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Then there is the boy you can never stop thinking about. Whenever you see his name, it trips you up. Even if it’s one that belongs to many others, even if he belongs to someone else.
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Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love–it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.
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You’re still crying about him aren’t you? Silly girl. What good will it do you to spill those sky blu tears? You meant either everything to him or absolutely nothing at all.
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The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.
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When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.
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You’re young and there’s still so much ahead. So much uncertainty and doubt. It keeps you up at night-this wild, restless feeling. But you don’t know how free you are. For this short, miraculous time, you have no one to answer to, nothing to lose. You belong wholly to yourself.
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I think the mysterious pull that draws you to another person is identical to the one that moves our eyes upward to the stars.
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Give me something I can write about.
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Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.
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It was pure bliss and absolute torture at the same time. I was in daze, as if my brain had suddenly packed up and gone on vacation. I could barely string words together in a sentence.
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Doesn’t your soul remain the age you were when you first fell in love?
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But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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I was there in your forgetting, until I was forgot.
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I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.
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What is she like? I was told – she is a melancholy soul.
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Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.
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I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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Anything and everything, the two almost the same–everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
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There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way-has an almost hypnotic effect.
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It was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe.
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She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.
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Whatever path you choose will take you to the same destination. The only thing that should guide you is your intuition.
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