Requited Love Quotes

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Charlotte Brontë
“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his.”
Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Fuyumi Ono
“I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.”
Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is our desire, not need, to be loved (back).”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Barbara Kingsolver
“Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Iris Murdoch
“I was perhaps moreover a little the dupe of that illusion of lovers that the beloved object must, somehow, respond, that an extremity of love not only merits but compels some return.”
Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“The beginning of something new can feel fresh and amazing,
Sometimes the weight of its importance pressing down upon us.
Yet, in the grander scheme of unselfish, requited love,
The heart bears it all, knowingly and willingly,
Outshining the most glorious of sunrises.”
James M Stoffel, Jr

H.C.  Roberts
“He made a resolution to pursue the requiting love of Education herself. No one was more desirable than her; no one could match her impressive looks or intelligence.”
H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction