Then there is the boy you can never stop thinking about. Whenever you see his name, it trips you up. Even if it’s one that belongs to many others, even if he belongs to someone else.
LANG LEAVLet her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.
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For she is his poet, and he is her poetry.
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I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.
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Here’s the story of my life. Hoping they would care about me or wishing they wouldn’t care so much.
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In time she will learn, not to miss them.
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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur-your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.
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And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I’ve changed.
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The time may not be prime for us, though you are a special person. We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock, in unison.
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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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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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When you don’t have the whole attention of someone, you find yourself begging for it from everyone.
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Here’s to those who wish us well, and the rest can go to hell!
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I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
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Don’t let them tell you that your pain should be confined to the past, that it bears no relevance to the present.
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It was pure bliss and absolute torture at the same time. I was in daze, as if my brain had suddenly packed up and gone on vacation. I could barely string words together in a sentence.
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For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
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Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.
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To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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Yes, we took it all for granted-but isn’t that such a blessed thing? When you’re not even thinking about what you have, because you never imagine you someday won’t.
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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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When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.
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In her eyes, the sadness sings-of one who was destined, for better things.
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To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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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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I have given so much to things that weren’t worth my time. When all along, it’s the people I love that I should have carried.
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