#quite

There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose even if they caused you harm. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the here after. Nothing is too small to be a mistake. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #unrequited-love #family

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true! ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #even #far #hang #i

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows. ↗

— Peter Baynham

#cool #feels #mad #quite #shadows

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#unrequited-love #love

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#insight #often #outsiders #quite

I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of the ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realize how it had comforted me. Quiteness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

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

#love

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#hopelessness #unrequited-love #dreams