Top 250 Lang Leav Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Then there was that year you fell in love. The one where there weren’t any candles – just you walking late at night through the city streets with your heart in pieces, wanting to give yourself to the first stranger who called you beautiful.”

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202. “I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.”

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203. “This is the part in the story where someone I love would only appear again in flashbacks.”

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204. “My name is no longer a name, it is a call.”

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205. “You talk to me in riddles, I will answer you in rhyme. I loved you for a little – I will love you for all time.”

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206. “Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.”

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207. “There’s a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice.”

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208. “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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209. “First love,” said Ida with a sigh. “That’s the one that kills you.”

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210. “When love finds you, it doesn’t come as crashing waves or thunderbolts. It appears as a song on the radio or a particular blue in the sky. It dawns on you slowly, like a warm winter sunrise – where the promise of summer shines out from within.”

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211. “You know, I still can’t get my head around what happened to Ana. She was there last week. She lent me a pen in English class. How can someone go from lending a pen to being dead?”

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212. “We’re kids, aren’t we? Yes, kids with grown-up powers.”

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213. “Now that you have it all, do you ever wish you could go back to when you had it simple?”

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214. “It’s good to trust your instincts; they’re usually right.”

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215. “You can’t borrow from the future, to make up for the past.”

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216. “I loved you more than loved allowed.”

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217. “I believe in forgiveness, in wishing well those who have hurt me. But I’m going to make you an exception. Because the truth is, I hope to God you suffer every heartache you put me through. I hope when the darkness comes for you, it will hit you twice as hard as it hit me. And I hope you will curse my name, knowing I was the one who sent it.”

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218. “That was the moment you should have told her what your heart was telling you. If you had allowed it, she could have been your whole world. All you had to do was open the door. All you had to say was, come in.”

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219. “The briefest moment shared with you – the longest on my mind.”

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220. “The second I tried to tell myself I wasn’t in love was the moment I realized I was.”

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221. “There are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.”

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222. “What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.”

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223. “Where the strangers we meet, take us down one way streets, and forgetting is something we’re taught.”

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224. “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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225. “It 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.”

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226. “Now all these years later, I am the one who is afraid. Because I love him, I still do. I haven’t stopped. I don’t think I can. I don’t think I ever will.”

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227. “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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228. “I’m the one having to pander to you. I’m sick of being the one doing all the chasing. I’m not asking you to make me a priority – I know you’ve got a lot going on. But at least meet me halfway.”

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229. “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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230. “It’s almost like there was only an up and down before him, but now I hav discovered you can also go sideways too.”

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231. “She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.”

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232. “I whispered things, I’d ever said to anyone else before, held on to him like I was drowning. Condensation fogged the windows and ran in rivulets down the glass. The sounds coming from the street outside felt as if they were a world away. This wasn’t how I imagined it would be, but it was perfect, and when it was over, I already was thinking about the next time.”

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233. “I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.”

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234. “Ana was the original sad girl. She held the unofficial title long before her death. We all became sad girls after that. At her funeral, everyone wore black because it was customary and because it was the color that best defined Ana.”

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235. “Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.”

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236. “For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.”

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237. “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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238. “And I sighed and wept for what could not be – and for all that could have been.”

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239. “Give me something I can write about.”

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240. “If you have to be with someone at all, then be with someone who makes you feel like you are still in control.”

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241. “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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242. “I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you.”

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243. “I used to think people were like lighthouses. That they were yhere to protect you. But they’re no. People are lime whirlpools. They pull you in; they drag you under. You have to work so hard just to keep your head above water.”

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244. “Or that one person whom you rarely speak with, who can always be found right where you left them. You carry their smile with you like a talisman – for whatever reason, their presence in your life will always bring the promise of better days.”

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245. “We all have moments of darkness, moments when we are so unlike ourselves. And like vultures, they wait for a slip, a misstep, then they take that part of us and try to convince the world that is all we are.”

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246. “Some Time Out The time may not be prime for us, though you are a special person. We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock, in unison.”

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247. “Someone who has your heart is not entitled to your body.”

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248. “The past has taught to not be caught in what is not worth pursuing- To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.”

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249. “Then we fell through the fabric of space and time and ended up here.”

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250. “Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.”

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