“...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.”
― The Book of Unholy Mischief
― The Book of Unholy Mischief
“We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.”
― The Predicteds
― The Predicteds
“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“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.”
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“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.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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