If you have to be with someone at all, then be with someone who makes you feel like you are still in control.
LANG LEAVI 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.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.
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Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.
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In cemeteries of memories, our love will lie in caskets.
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She can feel it down to her very core-this is her time. She will not only climb mountains-she will move them too.
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I know you are scared. Who could blame you? Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysalis. And you are a girl walking into the storm.
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I missed you today. Between waking and sleeping, I thought of you.
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The words I heard from you today, are said when there’s nothing left to say. What I would give to make you stay, I would give it all away.
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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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It was beautifully worded and painfully read; the things that were written, were those never said.
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In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
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There 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.
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And if you’ve forgotten, let me remind you. How love never really ends. How your heart breaks the same way it beats, again and again, and again.
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Why do you write? he asked. So I can take my love for you and give it to the world, I reply. Because you won’t take it from me.
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Loving you is like being ten years old again, scaling a tree with my eyes bright and skyward, wanting only to get higher and higher, without a thought of how I would get back down.
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