#unrequited

...surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?... ↗

— John Geddes

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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust ↗

— Kresley Cole

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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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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

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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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Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. ↗

— Lan Samantha Chang

#change

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back. ↗

— Ann Brashares

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The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

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Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. ↗

— Christina Westover

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