Top 120 Leah Raeder Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Suicide isn’t really about death, though. It’s about change. Release.”

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102. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

103. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

104. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “I don’t categorize people by who I’m allowed to like and who I’m allowed to love.”

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

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices.”

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

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114. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

115. “This world is so thick with ghosts it’s a wonder anyone can breathe.”

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116. “Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis.”

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117. “Okay, two weaknesses. I’m still supervillain material.”

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118. “Sometimes all you know about where you’re going is that it’s away from where you are.”

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119. “Boys are so beautiful when they don’t realize how powerful they are. When they hold it with quiet grace, oblivious to how easily they could rip the world apart.”

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120. “Call me more things. Call me yours.”

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121. “There’s something so terrible about wanting something you’ve already had. You know exactly what you’re missing.”

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122. “Sometimes someone says “I love you” so clearly that adding the words would only ruin it.”

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123. “Ellis and I had debated: Should we show the bad as well, or only the good? I said only the good. Why should Skylar’s suffering linger on? Why not let her rest, celebrate her life? But Ellis said showing the suffering was important because somewhere in that crowd tonight, someone else suffered, too. Someone would see those photos of her pain and feel a resonance. The point of art, of any communion between human beings, wasn’t to make people feel good – it was to make them feel less alone.”

— Leah Raeder

124. “Nobody knows how to be a grown-up. We’re all just pretending for each other.”

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125. “I think that lesson was the most important: that none of us actually grow up. We get bigger, and older, but put of us always retains that small rabbit heart, trembling furiously, secretively, with wonder and fear. There’s no irony in it. No semantics or subtext. Only red blood and green grass and silver stars.”

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126. “That’s why we’re just friends,” Armin said, so softly I barely heard. “She can’t fall in love, and I can’t fall out.”

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127. “Simplify what you see until it’s only bones, essence, soul. That’s the only way to understand what something really is.”

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128. “The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head.”

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129. “But that night we both lay awake, staring at the ceiling, silent. I thought, Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who’ve already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can’t even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”

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130. “This is what they don’t tell you about losing someone: It doesn’t happen once. It happens every day, every moment they’re missing from. You lose them a hundred times between waking and sleep, and even sleep is no respite, because you lose them in your dreams, too.”

— Leah Raeder

131. “I wouldn’t have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts.”

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132. “We’re the sun and moon, Blythe.” “What does that mean?” “I turn invisible when you’re out.”

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133. “Point is, nobody knows what to do with this life. And the second you think you do, your life will flip upside down.”

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134. “There was something very boyish about him at that moment, despite the five o’clock shadow, the blue rivers of veins mapping the back of his hand, the entire adult world he was part of. He looked lost. Maybe it was hypocritical, but the boyishness I barely tolerated in guys my age was exactly what drew me to him. He was like me: not fully part of the adult or child world. An exile, watching wistfully from the outside.”

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135. “What if this is all we have? This closeness, this space between breaths, holding each other like air in our lungs, the oxygen metabolizing into our blood in a thrilling, ephemeral rush? How could it ever, ever be enough?”

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