Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.
LANG LEAVTo love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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Isn’t it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.
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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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And if you’ve forgotten, let me remind you. How love never really ends. How your heart breaks the same way it beats, again and again, and again.
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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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There is a savagery to what you feel. It eats you up inside. But you will get through it; you don’t need his mouth to placate you. You don’t need his hands to untangle the butterfly knot in your heart. Your love is a fire that will burn itself out. Let it ravage you.
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Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking that it will always open its arms up to you?
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You talk to me in riddles, I will answer you in rhyme. I loved you for a little- I will love you for all time.
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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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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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You can’t borrow from the future, to make up for the past.
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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.
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Doesn’t your soul remain the age you were when you first fell in love?
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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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The most beautiful thing is not when you learn to live without something: it’s the moment you realize you never needed it in the first place.
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I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.
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How much love is a person capable of giving? I thought I knew the answer until I met you.
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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 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 loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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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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Don’t stay where you are needed. Go where you are loved.
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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 only the year that is ending. So why does it feel like the world is?
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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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Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who breaks it.
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