I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
LANG LEAVWhen you don’t have the whole attention of someone, you find yourself begging for it from everyone.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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In her eyes, the sadness sings-of one who was destined, for better things.
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I know there is a terrible distance between us. But our bodies are made of stardust, and we are hurtling through space and time, toward the most beautiful collision.
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I missed you today. Between waking and sleeping, I thought of you.
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When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.
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If you love my heart and mind, then you would love me, for all that I’m. But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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I loved you more than love was allowed.
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I do know there are all kinds of barriers to love. I do believe the world needs less of them.
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She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.
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I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.
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You must emerge from adversity, scathed but victorious to tell your story and, in turn, light the way for others.
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Be patient. Your voice will find its way into the world, not in one loud instance but a steady trickle that turns into a deluge.
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He gave her such gifts – not the kind that were put in boxes, but the sort that filled her with imagination, breathing indescribable happiness into her life.
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To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
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We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.
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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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you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
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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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Give me something I can write about.
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But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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I just hope you realize how much you mean to me. I just wish I could remind you of how beautiful you are. I’m sorry I haven’t told you in so long. But please don’t think I have given up on you. I will never give up on you. My arms are wide open. There is always a place for you here.
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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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The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.
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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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I don’t know if what we had was love, but if it wasn’t, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.
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I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
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