Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
LANG LEAVBecause someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
LANG LEAVSummer was felt a little more; in autumn I began to fall. When winter came with all its white, you were mine to kiss goodnight.
LANG LEAVYour first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who breaks it.
LANG LEAVyou cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
LANG LEAVYou must emerge from adversity, scathed but victorious to tell your story and, in turn, light the way for others.
LANG LEAVWe had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.
LANG LEAVHave you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.
LANG LEAVWe 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?
LANG LEAVTo never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
LANG LEAVIt 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.
LANG LEAVI learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
LANG LEAVI think there is a sense of ownership in knowing, isn’t there? You let people in, and they claim parts of you-they fly their flag over uncharted territory and from then onward-you cease to belong wholly to yourself.
LANG LEAVA Betrayal I cannot undo what I have done; I can’t un-sing a song that’s sung. And the saddest thing about my regret- I can’t forgive me, and you can’t forget.
LANG LEAVThere is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way-has an almost hypnotic effect.
LANG LEAVThe ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.
LANG LEAVNow that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?
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