Leah Raeder - Quodid

Quotes from Leah Raeder

There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

truth life relationships knowledge resonance familiarity

You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

possession wanting

It's crazy, that the defining moment of your life can be nothing to someone else. Like an infatuation, an unrequited love, every bit of you is drawn to it, orbits that heaviness at the center of your universe, everything you think and feel revolving around it and yet, nobody knows. Even the one who caused it. Especially the one who caused it.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.

—Leah Raeder in Cam Girl

closure meaning-making

Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

mind strength endurance

People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

knowledge feelings unconscious subsconcious

Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

exhaustion anger energy hardness

That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

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