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.
LANG LEAVYou are a writer bleeding words onto a page. And the ones who hate you will trample on that page. And the ones who love you will cut you, to keep you bleeding.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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You must emerge from adversity, scathed but victorious to tell your story and, in turn, light the way for others.
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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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Every day I measure the weight of my past against the present and feel the drag of what could have been.
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In the wrong hands, your past is a weapon.
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When was the last time you felt like someone knew you and not the person you’ve been pretending to be. When was the last time you felt like yourself.
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We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.
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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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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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I can’t believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It’s like I’ve been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.
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I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here.
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You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.
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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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I think the mysterious pull that draws you to another person is identical to the one that moves our eyes upward to the stars.
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Hands are no longer hands. They are caresses. Mouths are no longer mouths. They are kisses. My name is no longer a name, it is a call. And love is no longer love – love is you.
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I don’t know how you are so familiar to me-or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before-in another time, a different place, some other existence.
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