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“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: dating, julia-romano, love, unrequited

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#2

“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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#3

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love

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#4

“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.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: unrequited-love

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: fidelity, infatuation, love, unrequited-love

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#8

“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

tags: love, pain, unrequited-love

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#9

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”
― Meg Cabot, Haunted

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#10

“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

tags: longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love

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#11

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover

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#12

“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

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#13

“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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#14

“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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#15

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

tags: family, love, unrequited-love

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#16

“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
― Alma Katsu, The Taker

tags: hopeful, hopelessness, unrequited-love

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#17

“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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#18

“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 or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.”
― Madeline Hunter, The Romantic

tags: unrequited-love

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#19

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love, unrequited-love

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#20

“Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing."

"It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.”
― Will Once, Global Domination for Beginners

tags: love, unrequited-love

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#21

“I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: heartache, heartbreak, love, mortal-instruments, unrequited-love

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#22

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#23

“Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.”
― Stephen Lawhead, The Paradise War

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#24

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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#25

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

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#26

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: loneliness

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#27

“Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: broken-hearts, cruelty, hateful-people, love, relationships, unrequited-love

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#28

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
― Jim Morrison

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#29

“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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#30

“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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