1. “If you love me for what you see, only your eyes would be in love with me.” – Lang Leav
2. “I’m a stranger in my own life.” – Lang Leav
3. “It was how we began. Your mouth against mine, your fingers tracing along the back of my neck. You asked me to imagine what it must have been like, for the first two people who fell in love; before the word love was conceived. You said it felt that for you. Like we existed in a time before love – as though we were waiting for the word to catch up to the feeling.” – Lang Leav
4. “We were born to walk this world in intersecting lines.” – Lang Leav
5. “Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love – it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.” – Lang Leav
6. “I missed you today. Between waking and sleeping, I thought of you.” – Lang Leav
7. “Every time I see my name, I hear it in your voice.” – Lang Leav
8. “My mother once said to me; there are two kinds of men you’ll meet. The first will give you the life you want and the second will give you the love you desire. If you’re one of the lucky few, you will find both in the one person. But if you ever find yourself having to choose between the two, then always choose love.” – Lang Leav
9. “But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you’ll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.” – Lang Leav
10. “Of all you’ve used against me, the worst has been my words.” – Lang Leav
11. “I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.” – Lang Leav
12. “That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.” – Lang Leav
13. “How much love is a person capable of giving? I thought I knew the answer until I met you.” – Lang Leav
14. “In cemeteries of memories, our love will lie in caskets.” – Lang Leav
15. “If I could tell my younger self one thing, it would be this: There are many things in life you can postpone, but love isn’t one of them.” – Lang Leav
16. “One day you will be nostalgic for today.” – Lang Leav
17. “The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.” – Lang Leav
18. “It was all I wanted for the longest time- to open my eyes and see you there. To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.” – Lang Leav
19. “In the wrong hands, your past is a weapon.” – Lang Leav
20. “How many people have we known all our lives, and never once – Lang Leav
21. “Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.” – Lang Leav
22. “There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue; those that could have loved me so and I’ll never wonder who.” – Lang Leav
23. “The feeling is like the ocean. Sometimes calm and still; other times, it’s a hurricane.” – Lang Leav
24. “But it was now time for her to go away – to find someone who could show her what happiness was.” – Lang Leav
25. “I did not know that it was love until I knew.” – Lang Leav
26. “I was there in your forgetting, until I was forgot.” – Lang Leav
27. “Let her be herself. Or she will be somebody else’s.” – Lang Leav
28. “My heart is like a time capsule—it keeps safe the memory of you. I know it’s harder with you gone than if you had never been here at all—but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.” – Lang Leav
29. “If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life — they have not loved at all.” – Lang Leav
30. “You were the one, I wanted most to stay. But time could not be kept at bay. The more it goes, the more it’s gone, the more it takes away.” – Lang Leav
31. “Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words.” – Lang Leav
32. “Loving you is like being ten years old again, scaling a tree with my eyes bright and skyward, wanting only to get higher and higher, without a thought of how I would get back down.” – Lang Leav
33. “To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.” – Lang Leav
34. “It feels bittersweet to love you, as though time has already run its ruinous path and everything good is over before it begins. It feels perilous to love you, like a dust scorn swallowing up the sky or a comet skimming the stratosphere. But it is an honor to love you. Like the snow drifts giving way to spring, I will hold you for as long as I can.” – Lang Leav
35. “And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I’ve changed.” – Lang Leav
36. “You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.” – Lang Leav
37. “Because sooner or later, all kinds of love – crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.” – Lang Leav
38. “Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur – your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.” – Lang Leav
39. “Sometimes the loneliest place to be is in love.” – Lang Leav
40. “Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.” – Lang Leav
41. “I don’t think all writers are sad,” she said. “I think it’s the other way around – all sad people write.” – Lang Leav
42. “If a boy ever says, you remind me of someone – don’t fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.” – Lang Leav
43. “Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.” – Lang Leav
44. “Before I fell in love with words, with setting skies and singing birds – it was you I fell in love with first.” – Lang Leav
45. “That’s the thing about happiness. It doesn’t require justification.” – Lang Leav
46. “In time she will learn, not to miss them.” – Lang Leav
47. “I have been quiet lately, I know. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have too much.” – Lang Leav
48. “I thought you were a keeper, I wish I could have kept you.” – Lang Leav
49. “Somehow, there is a sense of comfort in knowing nothing will ever hit me quite as hard again. Nothing will ever be as beautiful, but neither will anything hurt as much.” – Lang Leav
50. “We had no ending, no said goodbye. For all my life, I’ll wonder why.” – Lang Leav
51. “Then there is the boy you can never stop thinking about. Whenever you see his name, it trips you up. Even if it’s one that belongs to many others, even if he belongs to someone else.” – Lang Leav
52. “You won’t hear from me again after today, and I don’t want you to worry. I’ll be okay. Because I have to be.” – Lang Leav
53. “I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.” – Lang Leav
54. “She would fondly call him her Frankenstein, this man who was a patchwork of all the things she had ever longed for.” – Lang Leav
55. “The less you speak, the more weight your words will carry when you do.” – Lang Leav
56. “Whatever path you choose will take you to the same destination. The only thing that should guide you is your intuition.” – Lang Leav
57. “This is where our love is found, in a strange little rhyme; where in space the beat of our hearts resound, while our bones lie in the ground. Little fragments ground down with time, where fingers once were intertwined, and I wore your ring, and you wore mine.” – Lang Leav
58. “The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.” – Lang Leav
59. “When someone stirs a world of emotion in you and it’s so intense you can barely stand to be with him.” – Lang Leav
60. “I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.” – Lang Leav
61. “Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life.” – Lang Leav
62. “Some days it felt like a burden, to smile for you. To keep the lines of worry from etching into your forehead.” – Lang Leav
63. “…it wasn’t my choice to love you but it was mine to leave” – Lang Leav
64. “Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.” – Lang Leav
65. “For the past has taught us not to be caught in what is not worth pursuing.” – Lang Leav
66. “Finally, I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer. And If I ever felt like home to you, it was because you were safe with me. I want you to know that most of all.” – Lang Leav
67. “To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.” – Lang Leav
68. “Don’t stay where you are needed. Go where you are loved.” – Lang Leav
69. “The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.” – Lang Leav