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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #2
    Stephen  King
    “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
    Stephen King

  • #3
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #4
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #5
    John Green
    “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 the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    James  Patterson
    “Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
    James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

  • #7
    “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
    Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

  • #8
    Sarah Dessen
    “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 potential.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #9
    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

  • #10
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #11
    Abraham Cowley
    “A mighty pain to love it is,
    And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
    But of all pains, the greatest pain
    It is to love, but love in vain.”
    Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley
    tags: love

  • #12
    Rose Gordon
    “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.”
    Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “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 health,
    Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
    This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #15
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #16
    Shannon L. Alder
    “I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #17
    Rosamund Lupton
    “When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”
    Rosamund Lupton, Sister

  • #18
    Clark Zlotchew
    “Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
    Clark Zlotchew

  • #19
    Donald Miller
    “I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.”
    Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #21
    André Aciman
    “If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”
    André Aciman

  • #22
    Lauren Oliver
    “I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.
    I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come.”
    Lauren Oliver, Requiem

  • #23
    T.H. White
    “Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #25
    “I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.”
    tim heaton

  • #26
    Paula Hawkins
    “That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.”
    Paula Hawkins

  • #27
    Sarah Waters
    “But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”
    Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

  • #28
    “The problem with me is that I cannot focus when she is on my mind. I can’t. I probably will make a mistake when writing that paper and will start writing everything I feel about her—the professor will be very happy with that, I am sure. Oh well, such is my life. I guess I’ve been attempting my best to forget her for several weeks now. But even in that act of forgetting her, I am remembering her. I am recollecting her and recreating her in my mind. And that’s where everything falls apart. In remembering her, I remember her goodness. In remembering her, I remember her weaknesses and my own. In remembering her, I am remembering myself. Out of that dark cave of mine, I call myself out. And then all of the remembering starts again. I doodle, I twitch, I aim restlessly for some unseen goal. And then my thoughts drift to you.

    I’ll let them stay there for now. Just for a minute.

    Or two.”
    Moses Y. Mikheyev

  • #29
    B.G. Bowers
    “There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us.”
    B.G. Bowers, Death and Life

  • #30
    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
    “I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

  • #31
    Ashley Jeffery
    “Someday you’re gonna realize that no one on this earth will ever love you the way I do. You’ll wish you’d said the words, wish you’d had this moment back. The truth is whether you say them or not I’ll still go on loving you. Even when it hurts, even when I feel it cut me up inside and I bleed…I’ll still love you, but someday…probably sooner than either of us want it to be….someday…I’ll hate you for it.” Raylan’s words are cruel and wonderful at the same time.”
    Ashley Jeffery

  • #32
    Dylan  Garity
    “Eventually, I spent so much time in the friend zone
    that I grew to think of it as some kind
    of magical home away from home, some lush forest
    filled with unicorns and elves and puppies
    none of whom were getting laid.”
    Dylan Garity



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