I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
LANG LEAVIt was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That’s just the way it goes.
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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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When someone stirs a world of emotion in you and it’s so intense you can barely stand to be with him.
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Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.
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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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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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Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur-your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.
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Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.
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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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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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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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In her eyes, the sadness sings-of one who was destined, for better things.
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Take me someplace where I can feel something-I want to give away my heart. Tell me his name so I can know love when it speaks to me. Give me someone I can write about.
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I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.
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You were none, and now you’re all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
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