The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.
LANG LEAVShe would fondly call him her Frankenstein, this man who was a patchwork of all the things she had ever longed for.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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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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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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But you’re not the kind of girl who builds her house from sticks; you are a fortress, stubborn and strong. Do not give away the keys to the kingdom to anyone less than a king.
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We all have moments of darkness, moments when we are so unlike ourselves. And like vultures they wait for a slip, a misstep, then they take that part of us and try to convince the world that is all we are.
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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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Hands are no longer hands. They are caresses. Mouths are no longer mouths. They are kisses. My name is no longer a name, it is a call. And love is no longer love – love is you.
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The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you.
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Love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time.
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Some days I feel like my soul is being pulled in one direction and my heart in another.
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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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It is only the year that is ending. So why does it feel like the world is?
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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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I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love–it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.
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It should be my right to mourn someone who has yet to leave this world but no longer wants to be part of mine.
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You’re still crying about him aren’t you? Silly girl. What good will it do you to spill those sky blu tears? You meant either everything to him or absolutely nothing at all.
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Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?
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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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And I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.
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We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
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But tomorrow, tomorrow could be different, and that is what keeps me going today.
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How many people have we known all our lives and never once loved. How many people have we loved and never known.
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But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you’ll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.
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To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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