I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
LANG LEAVYou’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.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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She would fondly call him her Frankenstein, this man who was a patchwork of all the things she had ever longed for.
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We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.
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I did not know that it was love until I knew.
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I used to think people were like lighthouses. That they were there to protect you. But they’re no. People are lime whirlpools. They pull you in; they drag you under. You have to work so hard just to keep your head above water.
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He and I When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He just is, I just am, and we just are.
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I look for you, the way I was taught to look both ways when crossing the road. Uptight and wary, bracing myself for something I know could break me.
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I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.
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I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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And I sighed and wept for what could not be–and for all that could have been.
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There are things I miss that I shouldn’t, and things I don’t that I should. Sometimes we want what we couldn’t, sometimes we love what we could.
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