#unrequited

I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep. I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#julian-fineman #love #sadness #unrequited-love #love

I'll be right here, I won't leave you, I'll stay with you until you need me, I'll love you even when you don't, because you make me HAPPY! ↗

— Gina Marie G.

#unhappy #unrequited-love #love

Someday you’re gonna realize that no one on this earth will ever love you the way I do. You’ll wish you’d said the words, wish you’d had this moment back. The truth is whether you say them or not I’ll still go on loving you. Even when it hurts, even when I feel it cut me up inside and I bleed…I’ll still love you, but someday…probably sooner than either of us want it to be….someday…I’ll hate you for it.” Raylan’s words are cruel and wonderful at the same time. ↗

— Ashley Jeffery

#raylan-crawford #scent-hound #the-wild-hunt #unrequited-love #love

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#love

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special. ↗

— Miranda Kenneally

#love

Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#unrequited-love #dreams

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#worry

...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

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

When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

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