#unrequited

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax... ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#humor #love #lovers #sensitive #soul

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you. ↗

— Perry Moore

#failure #hope #love #unrequited-love #love

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight. ↗

— Cathleen Schine

#unrequited-love #wistful #love

...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #torment #unrequited #love

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #sisters #unrequited-love #family

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you, because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fairytale-love #rescuing-you #saving-you #standing-up-for-who-you-love #unrequited-love

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love

Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#chance #girls #heartbreak #love #lovers

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

While you were protecting me from the world, just never thought you'd be my greatest enemy ↗

— Vivian E. Moore

#love