I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around- all sad people write.
LANG LEAVThe greatest heartache comes from loving another soul, they said, beyond reason, beyond doubt, with no hope of salvation.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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That’s the thing about happiness. It doesn’t require justification.
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I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
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It was a question I had worn on my lips for days – like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling – despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me, I ask?” In your hesitation I found my answer.
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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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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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The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.
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You can’t borrow from the future, to make up for the past.
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Whatever path you choose will take you to the same destination. The only thing that should guide you is your intuition.
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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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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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In time she will learn, not to miss them.
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In cemeteries of memories, our love will lie in caskets.
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The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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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 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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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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When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.
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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.
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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 build my walls from the mess they leave.
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My heart is like a time capsule-it keeps safe the memory of you. I know it’s harder with you gone than if you had never been here at all-but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
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The greatest injustice I have suffered has come under the pretense of love.
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Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to know one other.
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We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock in unison.
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There are days when the melancholy settles on you like a sudden change in weather. The kind of sadness that is intangible. Like the presence of an ache where you can’t pinpoint exactly where it hurts, you just know it does.
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When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.
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