Why 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 LEAVThere are many things in life you can postpone, but love isn’t one of them.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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I know love because I am in love. Because of how long I’ve loved. Because of the man I love.
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Where the strangers we meet, take us down one way streets, and forgetting is something we’re taught.
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I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.
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I don’t think about myself as much as I used to. I guess that’s a good thing. I only think about the things that are missing from me.
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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.
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But you’re not the kind of girl who builds her house from sticks; you are a fortress, stubborn and strong. Do not give away the keys to the kingdom to anyone less than a king.
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The greatest heartache comes from loving another soul, they said, beyond reason, beyond doubt, with no hope of salvation.
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When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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How many people have we known all our lives and never once loved. How many people have we loved and never known.
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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 wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
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We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?
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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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I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.
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