I have given so much to things that weren’t worth my time. When all along, it’s the people I love that I should have carried.
LANG LEAVThere are things I miss that I shouldn’t, and things I don’t that I should. Sometimes we want what we couldn’t, sometimes we love what we could.
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The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
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That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
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We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?
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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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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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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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Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.
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The greatest heartache comes from loving another soul, they said, beyond reason, beyond doubt, with no hope of salvation.
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I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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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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The words I heard from you today, are said when there’s nothing left to say. What I would give to make you stay, I would give it all away.
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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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It was a question I had worn on my lips for days – like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling – despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me, I ask?” In your hesitation I found my answer.
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Life has a way of working itself out. You’ll see.
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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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