Top 250 Lang Leav Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Just Friends I know that I don’t own you, and perhaps I never will, so my anger when you’re with her, I have no right to feel. I know that you don’t owe me, and I shouldn’t ask for more; I shouldn’t feel so let down, all the times when you don’t call. What I feel – I shouldn’t show you, so when you’re around I won’t; I know I’ve no right to feel it but it doesn’t mean I don’t.”

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52. “I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.”

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53. “It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.”

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54. “Sea of Strangers In a sea of strangers, you’ve longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores. The arms that yearn to someday hold me, will ache beneath the heavy oars. Please take your time and take it slowly; as all you do will run its course. And nothing else can take what only – was always meant as solely yours.”

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55. “The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.”

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56. “Have you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.”

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57. “Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.”

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58. “The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.”

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59. “It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was a dreamer, and you were a traveler. We met at the crossroads. I saw love in your smile, and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch, and I was already home.”

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60. “And if nothing ever comes of it, at least I have known the feeling, this wonderful sense of optimism. It is something I can always keep close to me – to draw from in my darkest hour like a ray of unspent sunshine. No matter what happens next, I will always be glad to know there is someone like you in this world.”

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61. “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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62. “Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.”

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63. “The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.”

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64. “Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life.”

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65. “I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.”

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66. “Because sooner or later, all kinds of love – crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.”

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67. “Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.”

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68. “You turn him into poetry because you can’t have him any other way.”

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69. “Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.”

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70. “She walks the earth freely, yet her feet never touch the ground. Many hands will reach for her, but she cannot be anchored. She belongs to no one, to nothing, to nowhere. When you meet her, you will recognize her for what she is – a free spirit, a wandering star. She will fit in your arms like she was made to be there. And she will show you what it means to hold something you can never hold on to.”

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71. “Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit – but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.”

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72. “Take me someplace where I can feel something – I want to give away my heart. Tell me his name so I can know love when it speaks to me. Give me someone I can write about.”

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73. “I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.”

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74. “It was a gentle love, a tactile love. It was all hands and lips and hearts in tandem. There was motion in our bodies and emotion in our discourse. We were a symphony of melody and melancholy. When you find peace in another’s presence, there is no mistaken.”

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75. “Your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who beaks it.”

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76. “After all this time, my love for you burns constant and true, my guiding light, my morning star. Time is testament to the relentless, unyielding power of this old, ancient love. A love I will carry with me, from eons to oceans to inches, back to you.”

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77. “To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.”

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78. “Life has a way of working itself out. You’ll see.”

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79. “You’re still crying about him aren’t you? Silly girl. What good will it do you to spill those sky blu tears? You meant either everything to him or absolutely nothing at all.”

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80. “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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81. “I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don’t know if what we had was love, but if it wasn’t, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.”

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82. “I did not know that it was love until I knew.”

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83. “Of all you’ve used against me, the worst has been my words.”

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84. “Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.”

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85. “Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love – it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.”

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86. “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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87. “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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88. “One day you will be nostalgic for today.”

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89. “Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow will be a new day. That the sun will go on shining. Or there are plenty of fish in the sea. What I will tell you is this; it’s okay to be hurting as much as you are. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary – because it makes you so much more human. And though I can’t promise it will get better any time soon, I can tell you that it will – eventually. For now, all you can do is take your time. Take all the time you need.”

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90. “One day, he noticed it had been a very long time since her last smile. When he asked her why, she took both his hands in hers and kissed them warmly. She thanked him for his gift of music and poetry but above all else – for showing her sadness because she had known neither of these things before him. But it was now time for her to go away – to find someone who could show her what happiness was.”

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91. “You are a toolbox, and you have to add stuff to it and build on it. I think the more tools you have, the better life gets.” “I like that idea.” “That’s my mission in life. To keep adding to the toolbox.”

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92. “As a little girl, she would drift in and out of libraries filled with dead poets and their musky scent. She held them in her hands and breathed them in – wanting so much to be part of their world... she learned that poets were among the damned, cursed to commiserate over their loss, outstretched hands – hands that will never know the weight of what they seek.”

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93. “I don’t think the moon ever meant to be a satellite, kept in loving orbit, locked in hopeless inertia, destined to repeat the same pattern over and over – to meet in eclipse with the sun – only when the numbers allowed”.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “Sometimes the loneliest place to be is in love.”

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96. “I have been quiet lately, I know. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have too much.”

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97. “Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.”

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98. “The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.”

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99. “Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words.”

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100. “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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