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.
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?
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you.
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Where the strangers we meet, take us down one way streets, and forgetting is something we’re taught.
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Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met? No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left.
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In the wrong hands, your past is a weapon.
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You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.
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The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.
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Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit-but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.
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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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And you said ecstasy was a storm cloud, just before the rain would burst into the night sky, like a thousand aquatic stars-and not one single moment before.
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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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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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A 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.
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The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.
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I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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