I have given so much to things that weren’t worth my time. When all along, it’s the people I love that I should have carried.
LANG LEAVIf any person claims to have loved twice in all their life – they have not loved at all.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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My indecision. I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
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Isn’t it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.
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I know you are scared. Who could blame you? Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysalis. And you are a girl walking into the storm.
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Yes, we took it all for granted-but isn’t that such a blessed thing? When you’re not even thinking about what you have, because you never imagine you someday won’t.
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And you said ecstasy was a storm cloud, just before the rain would burst into the night sky, like a thousand aquatic stars-and not one single moment before.
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Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur-your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.
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Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.
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Have you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.
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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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And I sighed and wept for what could not be–and for all that could have been.
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I think there is a sense of ownership in knowing, isn’t there? You let people in, and they claim parts of you-they fly their flag over uncharted territory and from then onward-you cease to belong wholly to yourself.
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That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.
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Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.
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I thought you were a keeper, I wish I could have kept you.
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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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