Top 100 Leylah Attar Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We started slow – a little drunk, a little dizzy – taking sips of honeyed bliss from dawn-colored lips. The world rolled below us – bicycle bells and newspaper boys, unaware that we were slowly setting the room on fire.”

— Leylah Attar

52. “This is what it looks like when you wander somewhere between the sand and stardust, and meet a piece of yourself in someone else.”

— Leylah Attar

53. “I wanted to know what your lips taste like after a smile.”

— Leylah Attar

54. “Whenever Jack spoke of Lily, his entire profile softened. In those moments, his innately captivating presence was like a flame, kindled from within. For a second, I was completely jealous, because I had never lived in someone’s heart like that. And I wanted to. I wanted to make someone, someday, glow like that when they thought of me.”

— Leylah Attar

55. “Once you’ve been loved by a man like Damian, once you’ve been branded and molded in the fires of that possession, you will never be moved by tepid, impostor kisses.”

— Leylah Attar

56. “Just sitting here thinking how far you’ve come, and I’m overwhelmed with how much I love you.”

— Leylah Attar

57. “I knew that whenever I thought of love, it would have a face, a name, a voice. And I would hear its heart beating from inside a tent in the wilds of Africa.”

— Leylah Attar

58. “I reached for the beads on my bracelet, thinking of the words on them. Taleenoi olngisoilechashur. We are all connected. How many times do we pass people on the street, whose lives are intertwined with ours in ways that remain forever unknown? How many ways are we tied to a stranger by fragile, invisible threads that bind us all together?”

— Leylah Attar

59. “I wanted to stay with him so I could put together all the dented, shattered parts of him, because I could never be whole where he was broken.”

— Leylah Attar

60. “I have a life-threatening allergy to peanuts and I just ate a whole bunch,” I said. “If I don’t get immediate medical attention, I’ll die.”

— Leylah Attar

61. “But sitting here before Troy Heathgate now, I’m teetering on a knife’s edge between honor and disgrace.”

— Leylah Attar

62. “Taleenoi olngisoilechashur.”

— Leylah Attar

63. “My greatest loss had led to my greatest love. Hearts were broken, and hearts were healed. Lives were lost, and lives were saved.”

— Leylah Attar

64. “God, he was intense. And deliberate. And he could say things with his eyes that made my knees tremble.”

— Leylah Attar

65. “You don’t always get the treasure by holding on. Sometimes the magic happens when you let go.”

— Leylah Attar

66. “It was a sense of belonging that blurs the lines between two people, when you find your ankle wrapped around someone else’s, or your fingers intertwined, and it’s so natural, so automatic, that you have no conscious thought of it happening. When I think of God, I think of all these magical, inexplicable things, multiplied by infinity.”

— Leylah Attar

67. “Because Damian in love was a thing of beauty – intoxicating, addictive, demanding, attentive, and always, always hungry.”

— Leylah Attar

68. “It’s not over, you know. It never has been,” he said. “Whether you say yes or no, you will always be my forever.”

— Leylah Attar

69. “It said I was equal parts earth and stars, equal parts animal and soul. I was hope. I was calamity. I was love. I was prejudice. I was my sister. I was his daughter. I was Juma. I was Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.”

— Leylah Attar

70. “They tell you that an affair destroys everything, that there are no winners, that there is only heartbreak.”

— Leylah Attar

71. “This. This is what a kiss should feel like. Like nothing else exists. All yearning and dizzy and falling and flying. Great big galaxies of want and wonder spiral inside of me.”

— Leylah Attar

72. “Don’t play with scorpions unless you intend to get stung.” He yanked the neckline apart. Round, glass buttons popped onto the floor and rolled around like eyeballs, astounded by the sight of my bare flesh. “We’re harsh and predatory and full of venom.” He gnashed his teeth at me and ripped my blouse in two.”

— Leylah Attar

73. “This is what he does to me. Open up the windows of my soul and push me out. Fly, dammit, fly!”

— Leylah Attar

74. “He lay on the floor, taking stock of the rest of his body. Legs? Yup, still there. Arms? Present. And functional. Torso? All systems go. Junk? Come in, junk? Alive, captain. Not happy, but alive.”

— Leylah Attar

75. “Because I’m scared. Because each time I see him, it’s a little more overwhelming than before. Because I’m afraid it’ll build up to a tsunami- like crescendo and come crashing down on me.”

— Leylah Attar

76. “It’s strange how someone can walk into your life, shatter the windows, break down your doors, scatter your belongings, and then walk away without having the slightest inkling of the storm they’d brought.”

— Leylah Attar

77. “This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls – like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into a lover’s glance.”

— Leylah Attar

78. “I wished I could see myself through his eyes. Then again, Damian never looked at me with his eyes. He looked at me with his soul.”

— Leylah Attar

79. “No one knows how many tomorrows they have. That’s what makes it all so precious.”

— Leylah Attar

80. “Kissing Jack was like kissing a slumbering lion. He barely moved, but I could sense the raw power behind his restraint.”

— Leylah Attar

81. “No one cares if, after a storm, they’re washed ashore naked. Only that they are alive.”

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82. “Maybe that’s what life was about. Seven billion people playing hide and seek, waiting to find and be found.”

— Leylah Attar

83. “It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.”

— Leylah Attar

84. “I would have stayed.” Her words were muffled against my shirt. “If you’d asked, I would have stayed.” My heart swelled with emotion. I knew she would have. She would have given it all up for me. So how could I not do the same for her?”

— Leylah Attar

85. “I pulled back, my eyes still closed, knowing that I had just stolen an epic moment from life.”

— Leylah Attar

86. “I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by.”

— Leylah Attar

87. “All of my wild, crazy exuberance fit perfectly in the quiet crevices of her dreams. It was as if all my life, I had been running towards this moment, this diamond sharp clarity of being and belonging, this strange, intriguing girl with her rose breath and her broken wings.”

— Leylah Attar

88. “Take that, I said to the naughty paperback lying on the floor.”

— Leylah Attar

89. “There is nothing to hide anymore. When love looks at you, when it truly pins you down and stares into your soul, it renders you defenseless. And in that moment, in that state of humbling nakedness, it makes you completely invincible.”

— Leylah Attar

90. “People plug in to you, and when they’re gone, you stop working for a while. You have to reconfigure yourself, rework your wiring, so you can get out of bed in the morning.”

— Leylah Attar

91. “When I think of God, I think of all these magical, inexplicable things, multiplied by infinity.”

— Leylah Attar

92. “You’re ruled by things I can’t compete with. Your rage trumps love, and hope, and faith.”

— Leylah Attar

93. “What good is love if you don’t show it?”

— Leylah Attar

94. “MaMaLu knew how to fix things – lost things, hurt things, cracked things, cut and bruised things.”

— Leylah Attar

95. “The longer we stayed together, the longer our list of cuts and bruises grew – both inside and out.”

— Leylah Attar

96. “When you lose someone you love, it doesn’t end with that event, or with their funeral, or with their name on the tombstone. You lose them again and again, every day, in small moments that catch you off guard. Almost.”

— Leylah Attar

97. “What we don’t understand always scares us.”

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98. “How deluded we become when we start believing that everything in the world is about us. How hard we work to make things fit into our made-up theories. How blindly we follow our worked-up emotions, the good, the bad and the ugly.”

— Leylah Attar

99. “It was like we had found a pocket of quiet, where all the ghosts in our mind had gone to sleep, and we were the only two people awake.”

— Leylah Attar

100. “Hope is a hollow backbone.”

— Leylah Attar