In a sea of strangers, you’ve longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.
LANG LEAVBecause someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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 thought you were a keeper, I wish I could have kept you.
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Before I fell in live with words, with setting skies and singing birds – it was you I fell in love with first.
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Be patient. Your voice will find its way into the world, not in one loud instance but a steady trickle that turns into a deluge.
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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else.
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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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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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It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
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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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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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It’s so dark right now, I can’t see any light around me. That’s because the light is coming from you. You can’t see it but everyone else can.
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It should be my right to mourn someone who has yet to leave this world but no longer wants to be part of mine.
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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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Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?
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I was coming to the end of a difficult period in my life, though when the end isn’t in plain sight, you don’t realize how close you are.
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If you love my heart and mind, then you would love me, for all that I’m. But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen.
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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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It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.
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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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In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
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Give me something I can write about.
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We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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But tomorrow, tomorrow could be different, and that is what keeps me going today.
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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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