Quotes from Memories

“It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“Patience
Patience and Love agreed to meet at a set time and place; beneath the twenty-third tree in the olive orchard. Patience arrived promptly and waited. She checked her watch every so often but still, there was no sign of Love.

Was it the twenty-third tree or the fifty-sixth? She wondered and decided to check, just in case. As she made her way over to the fifty-sixth tree, Love arrived at twenty-three, where Patience was noticeably absent.

Love waited and waited before deciding he must have the wrong tree and perhaps it was another where they were supposed to meet.

Meanwhile, Patience had arrived at the fifty-sixth tree, where Love was still nowhere to be seen.

Both begin to drift aimlessly around the olive orchard, almost meeting but never do.

Finally, Patience, who was feeling lost and resigned, found herself beneath the same tree where she began. She stood there for barely a minute when there was a tap on her shoulder.
It was Love.

..................................

“Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I just hope you realize how much you mean to me. I just wish I could remind you of how beautiful you are. I’m sorry I haven’t told you in so long. But please don’t think I have given up on you. I will never give up on you. My arms are wide open. There is always a place for you here.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“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, quote from Memories

“She was the book that was not written. The sentence that was not scripted. She was the word you wished you could have said.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“It seems an age ago, since you have left me, time has filled me, with words unsaid;
as the sadness seeps into me slowly, and I am left to face the night ahead.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“Love, he has abandoned me,
do with me as you will.
Love, he left - unceremoniously,
why must I love him still?

The best of me I gave to him -
the years, the days, the hours.
Precious little, in turn he'd given,
like dew to a wilting flower.

Love, he sheared away tenderly,
my beauty, my strength, my mind,
the gifts that were bestowed to me -
were swallowed in his pride.

Love, has he forgotten me?
Please tell me what you've heard,
I guard his memory jealously -
with him I'd place my worth.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“...it wasn't my choice to love you but it was mine to leave”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“It was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“Have you ever loved a rose, and bled against her thorns; and swear each night to let her go, then love her more by dawn.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“There's a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“The time may not be prime for us, though you are a special person. We may be just two different clocks, that do not tock, in unison.
”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“Reaching Out
I have given so much to things that weren't worth my time. When all along, it's the people I love that I should have carried. It's the ones I cared for whom I should have been responsible.

But maybe I'm too late. Because I don't know how to talk to you. I don't know how to ask you if you're okay. I don't know how to tell you I am so afraid of losing you. How much light would leave my life if you were no longer part of it.

I just hope you realize how much you mean to me. I just wish I could remind you of how beautiful you are. I'm sorry I haven't told you in so long. But please don't think I have given up on you. I will never give up on you. My arms are wide open. There is always a place for you here.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“Give me something I can write about.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“A Way Out
Do you know what it is like to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes.

Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I used to think I couldn't go a day without your smile. Without telling you things and hearing your voice back.

Then, that day arrived and it was so damn hard but the next was harder. I knew with a sinking feeling it was going to get worse, and I wasn't going to be okay for a very long time.

Because losing someone isn't an occasion or an event. It doesn't just happen once. It happens over and over again. I lose you every time I pick up your favorite coffee mug; whenever that one song plays on the radio, or when I discover your old t-shirt at the bottom of my laundry pile.

I lose you every time I think of kissing you, holding you, or wanting you. I go to bed at night and lose you, when I wish could tell you about my day. And in the morning, when I wake and reach for the empty space across the sheets, begin to lose you all over again.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me.   “Do you love me?” I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer. 
”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“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, quote from Memories

“Isn't it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I know you’ve lost someone and it hurts. You may have lost them suddenly, unexpectedly. Or perhaps you began losing pieces of them until one day, there was nothing left. You may have known them all your life or you may have barely known them at all. Either way, it is irrelevant — you cannot control the depth of a wound another soul inflicts upon you.

Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow is another day. That the sun will go on shining. Or there are plenty of fish in the sea. What I will tell you is this; it’s okay to be hurting as much as you are. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary — because it makes you so much more human. And though I can’t promise it will get better any time soon, I can tell you that it will — eventually. For now, all you can do is take your time. Take all the time you need.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“...and swear each night to let her go, then love more by dawn.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I know how hard it is to have to love someone in secret.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

“I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Memories

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