Top 120 Leah Raeder Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You can fall in love again with someone you’re already in love with. It’s like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy more real. Being in love is an endless loop of waking to reverie.”

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52. “In retrospect, you know all the answers. You know the shadowy throes of your heart.”

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53. “The city at night gave me the same melancholy twinge I’d felt as a kid watching Mom plug in the Christmas tree. Something beautiful and full of promise, but something you knew you could never touch.”

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54. “Don’t lead people on. It’s cruel.”

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55. “This life will be a cage for you.”

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56. “Some days I didn’t eat. I confused the gnawing in my belly for hunger and fed it, but it only made me sick. Strange how much missing someone feels like hunger. How the hole they leave behind is so much larger than they were. How it grows even bigger, feeding on you.”

— Leah Raeder

57. “You fall in love with it a little. Depression. It’s an abusive romance. It hurts like hell but you don’t want it to stop, because at least hurt is a feeling. At least it reminds you you’re still alive.”

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58. “I kissed my teacher in the shadow of the water tower, beneath the stars.”

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59. “Angels trying to scar themselves, bored of perfection.”

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60. “I never wanted you until I had you.” She looked at me now, her breath ruffling my hair. “And then I couldn’t imagine my life without you anymore. You’re the dark thing that was in me. I set you free.”

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61. “He can talk about the future all he wants, but it’s not going to wait for him to start.”

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62. “A body has a way of wanting to be touched so badly that the touch itself will hurt, but so will remaining untouched. Nothing helps.”

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63. “Just like in fairy tales, the wish wasn’t worth the price.”

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64. “Don’t be afraid,” Evan said. “We’re in this together, hand in hand, against the world.”

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65. “It wasn’t about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.”

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66. “Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new kind of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation.”

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67. “Hate is when you love someone but wish you didn’t.”

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68. “This world is run by people who know somebody.”

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69. “I never guessed it was that bad by looking at you,” she said. “You probably see a hundred disabled people every day and don’t realize.” “Never thought of that.” “Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices.”

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70. “The whole summer was inside of us.”

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71. “Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men.”

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72. “I felt like an animal in a cage being stared at by other animals, all of us anonymous, mindless, interchangeable.”

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73. “We don’t always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.”

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74. “I never wanted to be saved. I wanted someone to follow me down into the darkness.”

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75. “If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?”

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76. “Darkness isn’t bad. It’s only darkness.” Those fingers relaxed. “All it means is you don’t see the world as they do. You see what’s really there. They see what they wish was there.”

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77. “Every dream is a pipe dream before someone achieves it.”

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78. “This is the suburbs: they tear down nature, then you have to go to Home Depot to buy it back.”

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79. “I felt nothing. Do you know how much blood is soaked into every mile of asphalt, how many graves you drive over each morning on the way to work? This world is so thick with ghosts it’s a wonder anyone can breathe.”

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80. “I thought of Blue somewhere out there in the lights twinkling across the harbor. Alone in a hotel room, watching the tiny people below. So far away from it, the warmth of skin and breath. From everything real.”

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81. “If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.”

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82. “This is what happens when you lie. Lies grow thin and steely and hard and become bars. Bars become a cage.”

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83. “Most of us can’t even fix ourselves.”

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84. “Listening to her banter with Armin was like standing between two ballet dancers in a gunfight. They circled each other elegantly, feinting, pirouetting, setting up the fatal shot, and Blythe was usually the one to fire it point-blank to Armin’s chest. He accepted his wounds with a gentleman’s grace, and the dance resumed.”

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85. “If I die, that’s what they’ll find in me. This face, inked in the surface of every cell.”

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86. “Suicide isn’t really about death, though. It’s about change. Release.”

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87. “I don’t categorize people by who I’m allowed to like and who I’m allowed to love. Love doesn’t fit into boxes like that. It’s blurry, slippery, quantum. It’s only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible.”

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88. “If you tell a story enough times, it sounds like fiction. You don’t feel that visceral throb of resonance with the person who is you, who did the things you did.”

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89. “I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it was just a summer to a summer, a dizzying breath of honeysuckle and whiskey and candle smoke, inhaled, held, let go.”

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90. “Did you see her?” I said. He raised his eyebrows. “The real me.” “She’s right here,” he said, and kissed me.”

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91. “The earth sank beneath us, pressed by the weight of the whole universe above. How could it set us up like this, every planet precisely aligned, if it didn’t mean for us to collide?”

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92. “Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.”

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93. “I don’t categorize people by who I’m allowed to like and who I’m allowed to love.”

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94. “To the only love that lasts,” she said when we raised our champagne glasses. “The love of family and friends.”

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95. “Maybe it wasn’t solely about getting off. Maybe it was the illusion of intimacy, of sharing a life with this girl you jerked off to.”

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96. “You said you didn’t know how to have a grown-up relationship. Well, here’s your first lesson, Maise. When it gets hard, you don’t run away.”

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97. “Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices.”

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98. “No one looks for badness in the light.”

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99. “He held the ring out to me, and I took it, swallowing. My skin flashed hot and cold at the same time. This, I thought, is going to become a memory: the way I’m shivering but so warm inside, the way the sky is trembling above us, threatening rain, and the way your eyes are bluer than I’ve ever seen. I slid the ring onto my right ring finger, its heart pointing inward, toward mine.”

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100. “The thing about not breathing is no one tells you how addictive it is. That tingling rush, the buzz in every neuron as they eat through oxygen stores and reach for more and find nothing. It feels like a billion miniscule teeth digging into your brain. A shimmering wave of needle pricks starting in your lungs and skittering up your brain stem like a silvery centipede and spreading over your whole scalp, numbing you like a drug.”

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