Top 100 Leylah Attar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And it all starts within, because within is where all things begin.”

— Leylah Attar

2. “In the grand scheme of things, we do the best we can, all of us, and we make up our stories as we go along; we write them and direct them and project them into the world. And sometimes we get other people’s stories, and sometimes we don’t, but always there is a story behind a story behind a story, linked in a chain that we can only see a small part of, because it’s there when we’re born and it continues after we’re gone. And who can comprehend all of it in one lifetime?”

— Leylah Attar

3. “People will love you. People will hate you. And it always has more to do with them, than it does with you.”

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4. “If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.”

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5. “But you don’t always get what you want. Sometimes you get exactly what you need.”

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6. “She was my calm in the middle of chaos, a little piece of innocence untouched by the turbulence of the past.”

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7. “Sometimes we have to let go of the people we love because we love them – because their hopes and dreams lie elsewhere. It’s the reason I let you go, the reason I never asked you to stay. And it’s why Goma is letting me go, because my heart is already with you, all day, every day. So if you want me, always and forever, here I am.”

— Leylah Attar

8. “The most profound, most memorable moments of life are the ones that make you feel.”

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9. “What’s it like to face your own mortality? “It makes you think,” I reply. “The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.”

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10. “Whether you say yes or no, you will always be my forever.”

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11. “Family is family. Friends aren’t forever. Everything will break. People say goodbye. Get too close and you get hurt.”

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12. “Something clicked inside me at that moment. I stood outside of myself, realizing how easy it was to judge someone, to vilify and condemn the things we don’t understand, because:.”

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13. “Hate was an illusion, rage was an illusion, vengeance was an illusion. They were all empty husks that he had watered and nurtured, and in the end, they bore no fruit.”

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14. “You’re like the broken chapter of my favorite story.”

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15. “You know what, Rodel?” He reached across the table for my hand. “Everything is new when I’m with you. Food tastes better. Colors look brighter. Music is sweeter. I feel hungry for the world again. I want to go to the places I’ve skipped, I want to share them with you – show you who I am, who I was, who I can be.”

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16. “Because when we love, we carry it on the inside, and we can turn on its light even in our darkest moments. The deeper we love, the brighter it shines.”

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17. “It was the kind of magic that comes after a lifetime of searching, when you stumble upon something so perfect, you stop looking, and you say: Yes. This. I know this. I feel this. I’ve heard its footsteps echo down the hallways of my soul. We.”

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18. “The only way to feel truly alive is to start living fearlessly.”

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19. “I want to share every sunrise and every sunset and every second in between with you. I want your laughter and your breath and your blood and your bones. You’re the one thing that centres my soul. I may circle the whole world, but you’ll always be home, Beetroot.”

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20. “It’s not perfect, this thing between us, like trying to bring the two circles of our lives together, and living in the small, tight space where they intersect, everything else pushed to the circumference, until we step back inside our very different, very separate orbs.”

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21. “I crave you, Rodel. In the most innocent ways. I lie awake in my bed at night, thinking of you down the hallway, wanting nothing more than to hold you. I want to stroke your hair until you fall asleep. I want to give you forehead kisses when you’re down. That’s all I allow myself. I don’t go any further.”

— Leylah Attar

22. “Daddy?” said Lily. Her face was all lit up as she spoke into the phone. “I’m in the safe place now.”

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23. “Don’t play with scorpions unless you intend to get stung.”

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24. “We are a question that hasn’t been answered yet, a hiding place that hasn’t been found yet, a battle that hasn’t been fought yet.”

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25. “I want to remember this,” he said, pulling me into his arms. “If I die tonight, I want to die remembering what it was like to hold the whole world in my hands.”

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26. “Every time you share a meal with someone, you bring your history, your country, your region, your religion, your tribe, your grandmother with you. You sit with your past, your opinions, your love, your curiosity, your resentments, your hospitality. Food is where we all intersect. Everywhere you go, anywhere you go.”

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27. “We were like the shells we had once picked for MaMaLu – all the hard parts worn so thin that we could see right through each other.”

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28. “I thought of all the nights I’d spent in temperature controlled clubs and restaurants, under artificial lights, drinking artificial cocktails with artificial friends. Artificial problems. Artificial drama. How many real, glorious nights had I missed? Nights like this, when the universe dances for you, and you become a tiny but beautiful note of the magical song it sings.”

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29. “Nothing revives the cup of life more than a caustic splash of death.”

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30. “He might as well have been sitting there all along, all eight years that he was away, because he was there in my head, insinuated in the cracks of my heart.”

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31. “The truth doesn’t always set you free. The truth can kill you, slice open your innards and turn everything inside out. Everything I believed, everything I thought was real had been turned upside down.”

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32. “I needed his frost and his bite and his unrelenting fury to power us through the storm.”

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33. “Losing someone you love tunes you in to the fragility of life – of moments and memories and music. It makes you want to embrace all the foolish, inarticulate longings that pull at your heart. It makes you want to grasp un-played notes of un-played symphonies.”

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34. “Some circles never close, some wounds never heal. Love is like that. It leaves you forever open, forever vulnerable.”

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35. “Men who pick you up when they hug you,” said one of the girls. I didn’t know which of them it was, but they all sighed in unison. I stared at their spellbound faces. They caught me looking at them and cinched up their expressions. There was a moment of awkward silence. “Well, hopefully it’s a man you like,” I said. “Otherwise it could be a pepper spray moment.” It.”

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36. “It wasn’t just a kiss. It was a lesson – a fierce, burning imprint, so that my lips would always know the difference between being wanted and being craved.”

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37. “It’s me, MaMaLu,” he said, trying to get the words past his clenched throat. “Your Estebandido is home.” The.”

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38. “Hope is a hollow backbone. It can’t always carry the weight of reality.”

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39. “It was a kiss that had sneaked in through an open window, a kiss that lay folded in a paper giraffe, in the silences between 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, in the pits of the mini mangoes and here, now, at least, it was set free. And the rightness of it, the feeling of longing and belonging, made me want to hold on to it forever. I wanted Damian to keep kissing me, keep kissing, keep kissing, until every other kiss had been erased, until this was the only kiss.”

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40. “Growing old isn’t for sissies,” she said softly. “You lose the people you love. Over and over again. Some get taken away from you. Some walk away. And some you learn to let go.”

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41. “I don’t think I could have loved her more. How is that possible? When you think you’ve reached the very edge of love, that you can’t possibly go any further, and then the circle stretched a little bigger. And the pain with it.”

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42. “He was an ocean of want and need. All the raging, submerged currents that he’d kept at bay unleashed themselves on me.”

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43. “You ever wonder what we’d find if we could pick up the threads back to the point where things unravel, where paths cross, and lives pivot, and people come together?”

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44. “Hope is a hollow backbone. It can’t always carry the weight of reality. And I was tired of propping it up. I was tired of mending it each time it snapped.”

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45. “You were born on a day when the clouds were big and swollen with rain,” my nanny would say as she stroked my hair. “We were ready for a storm, but the sun filtered through the sky. Your mother held you by the window and noticed the gold flecks in your little gray eyes. Your eyes were the color of the heavens that day. That is why she named you Skye, amorcito.”

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46. “I would die a thousand deaths to save her.”

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47. “Pull a thread here and a life unravels there.”

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48. “You think there’s such a thing as too much happiness?” he asked. “Because right now, I feel like I can’t contain it and the universe is going to step in to restore the balance.”

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49. “Every time the sun shines through the rain, I will look for you. I will look for you in rainbows, and I will remember a man who holds the whole sky in his eyes.”

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50. “You kept tearing down my defences until I couldn’t fight you anymore. I’m in love with you, Skye. Bare, stripped down, completely vulnerable, in love.”

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