76 quotes found
“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.”
“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the love...”
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless po...”
“I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that...”
“A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”
“We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.”
“When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”
“He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the mos...”
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness, serious vanity,Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick ...”
“And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire h...”
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isnt meant to be.”
“In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least for ...”
“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
“I loved you even when you forgot me.Andfor a little whileyou loved me back.”
“At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now !I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for ...”
“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having...”
“Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.”
“I've decided to take this unrequited love, and quietly put it away in a corner of my heart as a bittersweet page of my youth.”
