To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
LANG LEAVI’m a stranger in my own life.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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Sometimes I am caught between poetry and prose, like two lovers I can’t decide between. Prose says to me, let’s build something long and lasting. Poetry takes me by the hand, and whispers, come with me, let’s get lost for awhile.
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I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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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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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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My heart is like a time capsule-it keeps safe the memory of you. I know it’s harder with you gone than if you had never been here at all-but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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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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It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
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You were none, and now you’re all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
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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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I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.
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If you have to be with someone at all, then be with someone who makes you feel like you are still in control.
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It was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe.
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There are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.
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You can’t borrow from the future, to make up for the past.
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Somehow, there is a sense of comfort in knowing nothing will ever hit me quite as hard again. Nothing will ever be as beautiful, but neither will anything hurt as much.
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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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We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.
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It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. 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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Understand that we must lose our way, over and over, before we can find the best version of ourselves.
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I thought you were a keeper, I wish I could have kept you.
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I just hope you realize how much you mean to me. I just wish I could remind you of how beautiful you are. I’m sorry I haven’t told you in so long. But please don’t think I have given up on you. I will never give up on you. My arms are wide open. There is always a place for you here.
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A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
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I have happened in so many places, to so many people – the essence of me lives on in these nuances, these moments.
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Anything and everything, the two almost the same–everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
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