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“You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it w...”
“It is a terrible, wretched thing to love someone whom you know cannot love you. There are things that are more dreadful. There are many human pains more grievous. And yet it remains both terrible a...”
“I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you o...”
“I thought that you could hear all my unspoken words.....for I misunderstood the language of my own love was so intense and your ears were so brittle!”
“I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.”
“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would ...”
“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to ...”
“Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.”
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of th...”
“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.”
“At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.”
“And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.”
“My head is full of seeing you see me.”
“But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look t...”
“She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not til the day he dies. Not even then.”
“Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Arent they beautiful? Look at the smoke. Im dancing in the smoke, Alowa.”
“If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too”
“Make me a willow cabin at your gateAnd call upon my soul within the house;Write loyal cantons of contemned loveAnd sing them loud even in the dead of night;Hallo your name to the reverberate hillsA...”
“She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.”
“I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.”
