I Can't Just Be Your Friend Because I'm Always Going To Want More

“Real love doesn’t ask to be your friend, when they know your whole heart is in it. Real love, loves you back because they realize your worth.”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com

“Beware of the word friend. It can often be used by men and women, that love them to excuse the most unfriendly behavior. Personally when I’m picking friends, I like the ones who don’t make me cry myself to sleep.”

— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com

“I said a lot of crappy things the other night and I'm sorry about that. The truth is, I'm scared to be your friend, because I'm always going to want more. But then I got to thinking that I would rather have you in my life as a friend than not at all.”

— Chris, amazon.com

“You wanna know what the truth is? I still love you and I probably will love you for a very long time. But I can't just be your buddy, because as much as i enjoy the concept of being "just friends" in reality it's a bizarre form of torture and i'm just not willing to participate in it. so right now w…”

— Joey, amazon.com

“I couldn’t just be your friend. And at first I thought that was my flaw. But it was a flaw in you, for asking that of me. I’ll probably always love you. And when and if our paths cross again I know, I’ll be breaking on the inside. I'll break for all we were, all we weren’t, and all you’ve probably f…”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com

“We looked at each other a little too long to be just friends.”

— Unknown, facebook.com

“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationsh…”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Every time he goes, she dies Every time she comes, she cries. He was her long, bright future In the middle of a wrong, dark road He loved her, but he wasn't too sure If he could return the love she showed When she said, "my love extends Beyond the realm of being friends" He kissed her head And quiet…”

— Jay Brannan, amazon.com

“you cannot leave and have me too i cannot exist in two places at once -when you ask if we can still be friends”

— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com

“You don't need to change A thing about you, babe I'm telling you from where I sit You're one of a kind Relationships I don't know why They never work out and they make you cry But the guy that says goodbye to you Is out of his mind, mind You always did kinda drive me crazy And it pissed me off 'caus…”

— Griffin House, youtube.com

“It's not that I want to be the one holding your hand, it's just that I don't want her to be the one holding it”

— Dawson's Creek, amazon.com

“So next time you find you wanna leave her bed for mine Why don't you stay?”

— Sugarland, youtube.com

“Because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

— Dave Matthews Band, thoughtcatalog.com

“I have enough friends I don’t want your friendship I want your hand to hold at night I want your voice to hear every morning I want your hugs to keep me warm I don’t want your friendship I want more I want your love”

— Rania Naim, gumroad.com

“There's a fine line between 'friends' and someone not caring enough to call you their girlfriend. You don't deserve someone who keeps you around solely to boost their own ego, when they have no one better to call. I know you think letting him go feels like you're losing the love of your life. But le…”

— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com

“People can't just fuck. They can't. One or the other gets caught up in emotion, someone gets hurt.”

— Megan Hart, amazon.com

“We’re just friends tangled up in loose ends I feel it coming around again Let me know where you let your heart go And I will just pretend That I have never felt this way Since you I have never felt this way Since you I feel strange Playing games.”

— Ed Sheeran, youtube.com

“Michael, I love you. I've loved you for nine years. I've just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and, well, now, I'm just scared, so - I-I-I realize this comes at a very inopportune time, but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. M-marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh,…”

— Julianne, amazon.com

“Friends are supposed to make you feel good about yourself. Just remember that.”

— KatyScar, facebook.com

“It's just a drop in the ocean, a change in the weather, I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain, as I stand in the desert. But I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven. Misplaced trust in old friends, never counting regrets, by the grace of G…”

— Ron Pope, youtube.com

“I told you I loved you. I knew I couldn’t just be your friend. Because I would always want more. And every time alcohol came pressed between my lips, I’d reach for the phone to tell you these things. I wanted to be strong for you. I wanted to be there for you. I wanted to go back to the ways things…”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com

“Whispers scream in the night, ‘just friends’ or ‘fuck buddies.’ You're doomed. Because someone is going to get hurt. Someone is gonna fall.”

— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com