Top 120 Leah Raeder Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “If I die, that’s what they’ll find in me. This face, inked in the surface of every cell.”

— Leah Raeder

102. “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

103. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

107. “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

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

— Leah Raeder

109. “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

110. “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

111. “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

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

122. “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

123. “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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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.”

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

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

— Leah Raeder

132. “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

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

— Leah Raeder

134. “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

135. “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