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    John Green
    “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: unrequited-love
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    William Shakespeare
    “If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.
    That strain again! it had a dying fall:
    O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
    That breathes upon a bank of violets,
    Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
    'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
    O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
    That, notwithstanding thy capacity
    Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
    Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
    But falls into abatement and low price,
    Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
    That it alone is high fantastical.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: music, romance, unrequited-love
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    James Patterson
    “Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: hopelessness, unrequited-love, yearning
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: fidelity, infatuation, love, unrequited-love
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    Cassandra Clare
    “I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
    tags: simon-lewis, unrequited-love
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    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “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
    tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing
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    Sarah Dessen
    “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, The Truth About Forever
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    ― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
    tags: longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    Kristan Higgins
    “I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.”
    ― Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted
    tags: broken-heart, crush, unrequited-love
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “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, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: unrequited-love
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    André Aciman
    “And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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  • #14
    “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
    ― Christina Westover
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    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, coming-out, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acceptance, actions, beliefs, common-sense, confusion, disbelief, evidence, faith, family, hoping, life-purpose, love, mixed-signals, obvious, outrage, proof, reality, religion, sorrow, timing, truth, unrequited-love
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    Rose Gordon
    “A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
    ― Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Abraham Cowley
    “A mighty pain to love it is,
    And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
    But of all pains, the greatest pain
    It is to love, but love in vain.”
    ― Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley
    tags: love
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    Sanober Khan
    “the saddest thing is to be
    a minute to someone,
    when you've made them your eternity.”
    ― Sanober Khan
    tags: eternity, heartbreak, indian-authors, love-quotes, loving, loving-someone, minutes, pain, poetry, poetry-quotes, sad-quotes, sadness, unrequited-love
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    Louis C.K.
    “Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.”
    ― Louis C.K.
    tags: comedian, louis-ck, love, romance, unrequited-love
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    Melissa Jensen
    “sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
    ― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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    Tonya Hurley
    “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, Ghostgirl
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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    André Aciman
    “Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
    ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: choices-and-consequences, love-and-loss, unrequited-love
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    Miranda Kenneally
    “When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”
    ― Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Ranata Suzuki
    “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
    And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, memories, memories-quotes, memory, memory-quote, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, reminders, reminisce, reminiscence, reminiscing, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, the-past, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
    ― Cassandra Clare
    tags: unrequited-love
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    Tasha Alexander
    “It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
    ― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
    tags: adore, love, unrequited-love
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    Ranata Suzuki
    “It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it”
    ― Ranata Suzuki
    tags: always-yours, beautiful, beautiful-quote, break-up-quote, break-ups, breakup, breakup-quote, breakup-quotes, broken-heart, deep-love, deep-love-quotes, deep-thoughts, distance, distance-relationship, feelings, feelings-and-emotions, feelings-of-love, from-a-distance, grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes, grieving, heartbreak, heartbreak-quotes, heartbroken, heartbroken-quotes, i-miss-you, loss, loss-of-love, loss-quote, loss-quotes, lost, lost-love, lost-love-quotes, love, love-quotations, love-quote, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, missing-someone, missing-you-quotes, quote, quotes, ranata-suzuki, ranata-suzuki-quote, sad, sad-quote, sad-quotes, sadness, secret-love, the-one-that-got-away, the-only-one, unrequited, unrequited-love, without-you
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    Shannon A. Thompson
    “Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
    ― Shannon A. Thompson, Seconds Before Sunrise
    tags: emotional, emotional-pain, emotions, heart, heartbeat, heartfelt, love, love-story, painful, painful-love, passion, passionate, romance, stillness, teenage-love, unrequited-love, young-adult-paranormal, young-adult-romance, young-love
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    Cora Carmack
    “I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.”
    ― Cora Carmack, Losing It
    tags: believe, desires, losing-it, repression, unrequited-love
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