I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
LANG LEAVI used to think I couldn’t go a day without your smile. Without telling you things and hearing your voice back.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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Summer was felt a little more; in autumn I began to fall. When winter came with all its white, you were mine to kiss goodnight.
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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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Of all you’ve used against me, the worst has been my words.
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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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The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.
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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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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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Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words.
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When you don’t have the whole attention of someone, you find yourself begging for it from everyone.
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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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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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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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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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But tomorrow, tomorrow could be different, and that is what keeps me going today.
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