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.
LANG LEAVThen 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.
LANG LEAVShe was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.
LANG LEAVI can’t believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It’s like I’ve been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.
LANG LEAVOf all you’ve used against me, the worst has been my words.
LANG LEAVThere are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.
LANG LEAVI saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
LANG LEAVWe were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.
LANG LEAVWhy do you write? he asked. So I can take my love for you and give it to the world, I reply. Because you won’t take it from me.
LANG LEAVIn the wrong hands, your past is a weapon.
LANG LEAVWhere the strangers we meet, take us down one way streets, and forgetting is something we’re taught.
LANG LEAVLet her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.
LANG LEAVIt was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
LANG LEAVHave you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.
LANG LEAVAnd I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.
LANG LEAVWhen you don’t have the whole attention of someone, you find yourself begging for it from everyone.
LANG LEAVWhatever path you choose will take you to the same destination. The only thing that should guide you is your intuition.
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