76 quotes found
“Are you using me simply as a vulgar tool? Don't you care for me the least little bit? Let me suggest that for a girl in your-your ambiguous position, you are too proud, by several shades. Don't go ...”
“Its bad enough to love someone who dont love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, Im getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I...”
“We've done so much together, wherever I go and whatever I see, I think of you. Newborn babies; the pattern on the plate that you can see under a paper-thin slice of sashimi; fireworks in August. Th...”
“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...”
“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.”
“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...”
“I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too”
“There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it...”
“Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it—she had to be ten years olde...”
“I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.”
“It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I’m getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked...”
“...I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys...”
“The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep. It was with a feeling of personal pride that I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pa...”
