#unrequited

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people. ↗

— Carol Rifka Brunt

#unrequited-love #change

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #unrequited-love #family

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#relationships #unrequited-love #humor

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#love #unrequited-love #love

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

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

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

Had Martha Foley returned William [James Sidis]'s passion as Margaret [Engemann] did Norbert [Wiener]'s, perhaps the two prodigies would have had more in common in the long run. ... In the life of a prodigy, perhaps more than in the average life, a marriage or a requited love is the greatest single factor that can heal the old childhood wounds. William and Norbert's response to their childhood and teenage rejections and humiliations was to retreat into the painless world of ideas, where successes and satisfactions abounded. A successful love affair could be the key to reentry into the world of feeling, bridging the gap between the cerebral and the emotional lives. ↗

— Amy Wallace

#prodigy #unrequited #love

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. ↗

— Lan Samantha Chang

#change