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    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
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    James Patterson
    “Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: hopelessness, unrequited-love, yearning
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  • #4
    “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
    tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister
    tags: loving, unrequited-love
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    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
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing
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  • #8
    “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
    ― Christina Westover
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    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
    tags: unrequited-love
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  • #10
    Louis C.K.
    “Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.”
    ― Louis C.K.
    tags: comedian, louis-ck, love, romance, unrequited-love
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    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
    tags: adversity, anger, battles, boyfriends, breakups, choices, confusion, crazy-love, crush, dating, disease, divorce, exboyfriends, exgirlfriends, exspouse, feelings, funny, hatred, humor, in-love, insane, insane-love, insanity, lack-of-communication, life, mad-love, marriage, mixed-signals, obsessive-love, partners, relationships, romance, spouse, struggles, stupid-men, stupid-women, unfinished-business, unrequited-love
    650 likes

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    Margaret Mitchell
    “If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: lie, scarlett, unrequited-love
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    Melissa Jensen
    “sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
    ― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love
    727 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends, lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships, romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love
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  • #16
    Christine Seifert
    “We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.”
    ― Christine Seifert, The Predicteds
    tags: unrequited-love
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  • #17
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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  • #18
    Ai Yazawa
    “His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him”
    ― Ai Yazawa, 天使なんかじゃない―完全版 1 [Tenshi nanka janai - Kanzenban 1]
    tags: romance, unrequited-love
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    Georgette Heyer
    “There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Venetia
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Gregory David Roberts
    “nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
    ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: unrequited-love
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  • #22
    Julio Alexi Genao
    “I loved you even when you forgot me.

    And—for a little while—you loved me back.”
    ― Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
    tags: unrequited-love
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  • #23
    Cora Carmack
    “I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    tags: believe, desires, losing-it, repression, unrequited-love
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  • #24
    “The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
    ― Kiran Joshi
    tags: curse, kiranjoshi, love, unrequited-love
    99 likes



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