That’s the thing about writers – on one hand everything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.
LANG LEAVIt 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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The sad thing is,” she said, “the moment you start to miss someone, it means they’re already gone.
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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.
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But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you’ll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.
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We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.
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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 want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.
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But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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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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Hands are no longer hands. They are caresses. Mouths are no longer mouths. They are kisses. My name is no longer a name, it is a call. And love is no longer love – love is you.
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My father was a house,my mother was a home.
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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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The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.
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I do know there are all kinds of barriers to love. I do believe the world needs less of them.
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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.
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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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I 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.
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I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around- all sad people write.
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I used to think people were like lighthouses. That they were there to protect you. But they’re no. People are lime whirlpools. They pull you in; they drag you under. You have to work so hard just to keep your head above water.
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Like time suspended, a wound unmended – you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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Searching for the one thing, that would set my sad soul free.
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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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If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone–don’t fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.
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Every day I measure the weight of my past against the present and feel the drag of what could have been.
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Some Time Out The time may not be prime for us, though you are a special person. We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock, in unison.
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If you love me for what you see, only your eyes would be in love with me.
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