Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
LANG LEAVThere is a savagery to what you feel. It eats you up inside. But you will get through it; you don’t need his mouth to placate you. You don’t need his hands to untangle the butterfly knot in your heart. Your love is a fire that will burn itself out. Let it ravage you.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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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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What is she like? I was told – she is a melancholy soul.
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But how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?
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Give me something I can write about.
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You won’t hear from me again after today, and I don’t want you to worry. I’ll be okay. Because I have to be.
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The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you.
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Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?
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We will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph.
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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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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 learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
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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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If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life – they have not loved at all.
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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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I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
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