Lang Leav Quotes: 9

• You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.

  Love & Misadventure

• Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.

  Love & Misadventure

• Love is a game of tic-tac-toe,constantly waitingfor the next x or o.

• Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.

  Love & Misadventure

• Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid; or the bent and broken feet of a dancing ballerina. It is in every considered step I am taking in the opposite direction of you.

• I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

  Love & Misadventure

• The WandererWhat is she like?I was told—she is amelancholy soul.She is likethe sun to the night;a momentary gold.A star when dimmedby dawning light;the flicker ofa candle blown.A lonely kitelost in flight—someone oncehad flown.

  Love & Misadventure

• Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again.

  Love & Misadventure

• She lends her pen,to thoughts of him,that flow from it,in her solitary.For she is his poet,And he is her poetry.

  Love & Misadventure