I look for you, the way I was taught to look both ways when crossing the road. Uptight and wary, bracing myself for something I know could break me.
LANG LEAVIt was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to know one other.
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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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The sad thing is,” she said, “the moment you start to miss someone, it means they’re already gone.
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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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In her eyes, the sadness sings-of one who was destined, for better things.
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And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I’ve changed.
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I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
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I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
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I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
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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 know love because I am in love. Because of how long I’ve loved. Because of the man I love.
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The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.
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I think that bothers me more than anything. That he could look in my eyes and tell me something that is completely contrary to the truth.
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