#unrequited

My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody. ↗

— Robert Burns

#heartbreak #longing #love #unrequited-love #love

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

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

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #sisters #unrequited-love #family

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

— Georgette Heyer

#love

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#unrequited-love #love

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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He silenced the thought, already itching to get inside her, his tongue, or his fingers, or his cock. After all these years of wanting, he would gladly accept whatever access to her body she gave him. He just wanted in. ↗

— Amber Belldene

#lena #unrequited-love #vampire #love

it maybe a lame thing to say, that all guys are just the same, but it's true as far as i' m concerned... or maybe it's fate! ↗

— Gina Marie G.

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And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me. ↗

— Augusta Gregory

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I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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