Matthew O'Connell

“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
― Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“...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