Top 120 Leah Raeder Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Did you see her?” I said. He raised his eyebrows. “The real me.” “She’s right here,” he said, and kissed me.”

— Leah Raeder

102. “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?”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

106. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

107. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

110. “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

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

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115. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

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

— Leah Raeder

118. “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

119. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

121. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

122. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

123. “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

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

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

127. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

128. “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?”

— Leah Raeder

129. “What brings you back to life also gives you the means to destroy yourself.”

— Leah Raeder

130. “Sometimes I feel like a deperson.”

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131. “My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

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132. “The highway at night looked like a movie flashing past us in fast forward, all the lights receding, out of reach. Autumn spread its golden disease through the woods, Midas trailing his fingers over the treetops. Dying things became extraordinarily beautiful at the very end.”

— Leah Raeder

133. “That’s how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they’ll never see”.”

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134. “We’d never know what was real and what wasn’t about each other. That was the beauty of our shared fiction.”

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135. “In a way it wasn’t so different from art. It bridged the void between minds, let us feel something together, ten tokens per minute. Sometimes I thought, Money isn’t filthy or cold. It’s the only way we can be human with each other anymore.”

— Leah Raeder