How do I thank my mother for giving me the life she desperately wanted to give herself.
LANG LEAVThe things that seem to matter less, are the ones we put on show.
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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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Here and now I love you, for the moment you have my heart. But you are entitled to my future, you have no ownership of my past.
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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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Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.
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But you’re not the kind of girl who builds her house from sticks; you are a fortress, stubborn and strong. Do not give away the keys to the kingdom to anyone less than a king.
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You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.
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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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I know love because I am in love. Because of how long I’ve loved. Because of the man I love.
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To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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We number our days and divide our seasons. We endlessly define what it is to be in love. When in truth, spring blurs into summer and always has, long before that line was ever drawn.
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I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.
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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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But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
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To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
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It is only the year that is ending. So why does it feel like the world is?
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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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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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If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life – they have not loved at all.
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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 you were born with your heart already broken. But the world began in pieces and somehow made itself whole.
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There is one who you belong to, whose love- there is no song for.
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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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I’m the one having to pander to you. I’m sick of being the one doing all the chasing. I’m not asking you to make me a priority – I know you’ve got a lot going on. But at least meet me halfway.
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You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
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Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.
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But how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?
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