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.
LANG LEAVThe less you speak, the more weight your words will carry when you do.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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Somehow, there is a sense of comfort in knowing nothing will ever hit me quite as hard again. Nothing will ever be as beautiful, but neither will anything hurt as much.
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I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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I missed you today. Between waking and sleeping, I thought of you.
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I build my walls from the mess they leave.
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Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
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There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way-has an almost hypnotic effect.
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I’m a stranger in my own life.
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Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking that it will always open its arms up to you?
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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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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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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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You talk to me in riddles, I will answer you in rhyme. I loved you for a little- I will love you for all time.
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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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