I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
LANG LEAVA book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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I don’t know how you are so familiar to me-or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before-in another time, a different place, some other existence.
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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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The less you speak, the more weight your words will carry when you do.
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Some days it felt like a burden, to smile for you. To keep the lines of worry from etching into your forehead.
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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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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 wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
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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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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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Anything and everything, the two almost the same–everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
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In a sea of strangers, you’ve longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.
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You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
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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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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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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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