#unrequited

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#unrequited-love #youth #anger

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#books #boyfriend #choices #faith #family

I loved you even when you forgot me. And—for a little while—you loved me back. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#love

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#murder #unrequited-love #women #love

...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#enchantment #unrequited-love #love

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#unrequited-love #vain #love

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#scarlett #unrequited-love #love

Out of her favour, where I am in love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#unrequited-love #love

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#unrequited-love #wallowing #love

Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes and smile and name. She knew how he looked--the angel in her dream--but she didn't know how to find him. Should she roller-skate through the streets in the evenings when the streetlights flicker on? Should she stow away to Jamaica on a cruise ship and search for him in the rain forests and along the beaches? Would he come to her? Was he waiting, dreaming of her in the same way she waited and dreamed? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#love #romance #unrequited #dreams