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Leylah Attar QUOTES

Leylah Attar QUOTES

1 " You’re like the broken chapter of my favorite story. "

― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti

2 " 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 , 53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

4 " Please don’t look at me like that.
He lowers his gaze, picks up a strand of my hair and twirls it around his finger.
“I miss you,” he says to it.
It’s barely audible over the sound of the storm raging outside, but in here, it’s like a roaring crescendo.
Why do his words have the power to turn my world upside down?
Why do will and shame and guilt and sense fall by the wayside when I’m with him?
Because you love him, comes the answer.
You love him.
You love him.
It echoes like the clap of distant thunder. "

― Leylah Attar , 53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)

5 " You don’t always get the treasure by holding on. Sometimes the magic happens when you let go. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

6 " 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. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

7 " 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 , The Paper Swan

8 " People will love you. People will hate you. And it always has more to do with them, than it does with you. "

― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti

9 " We are sand and rock and water and sky, anchors on ships and sails in the wind. We are a journey to a destination that shifts every time we dream or fall or keep or weep. We are stars with flaws that still sparkle and shine. We always strive, always want, always have more questions than answers, but there are moments like these, full of magic and contentment, when souls get a glimpse of the divine and quite simply, lose their breath. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

10 " You can either choose love or you can choose hate, because where one lives, the other will die. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

11 " 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. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

12 " 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 , The Paper Swan

13 " So what's it like? To have it all?

Like flying. Soaring. Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all up for, and can never have. "

― Leylah Attar , 53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)

14 " Sometimes everything gets dismantled so something better can be pieced together. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

15 " Sometimes you come across a rainbow story—one that spans your heart. You might not be able to grasp it, but you can never be sorry for the color and magic it brought. "

― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti

16 " 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 , 53 Letters for My Lover (53 Letters for My Lover, #1)

17 " But you don’t always get what you want. Sometimes you get exactly what you need. "

― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti

18 " there is no space too dark or too vast or too irredeemable that can’t be filled with love. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan

19 " Sometimes we need to be jarred out of our own reality. We base so much of ourselves on other people’s perceptions of us. We live for the compliments, the approval, the applause. But what we really need is a grand, spine-chilling encounter with ourselves to believe we’re freaking magical. And that’s the best kind of believing, because no one can unsay it or take it away from you. "

― Leylah Attar , Mists of the Serengeti

20 " Just sitting here thinking how far you’ve come, and I’m overwhelmed with how much I love you. "

― Leylah Attar , The Paper Swan