I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
LANG LEAVIt 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.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone–don’t fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.
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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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When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.
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I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.
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What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing is not when you learn to live without something: it’s the moment you realize you never needed it in the first place.
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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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And I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.
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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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I have happened in so many places, to so many people – the essence of me lives on in these nuances, these moments.
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Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who breaks it.
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You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.
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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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