I Loved You More Than You Loved Me

“I don't really know how to do things half-measures.”

— Melissa Broder, amazon.com

“i am sorry i mistook your body for a flood and drowned in it.”

— Andrea Mena, vagabondcitylit.com

“No matter how busy a person is, if they care, they’ll find time for you.”

— hipster, hipster.tumblr.com

“Looking at you it occurred to me I could sit around all day wearing nothing but your kiss.”

— Shane L. Koyczan, amazon.co.uk

“In every relationship someone is falling deeper than the other.”

— Dayne Flores, dayneflores.photography

“i am sorry i made you fill a space that was never there i am sorry we are two mirrors placed in front of another i am sorry i am a band-aid and band-aids are not enough”

— Andrea Mena, vagabondcitylit.com

“Of course I wanted him to love me. To play house where I was his wife and he my salesman always leaving late for work.”

— Mitchell King, spilledmilkmagazine.com

“I cannot say that I have gone to hell for your love, but often found myself there in your pursuit.”

— William Carlos Williams, amazon.com

“I tell myself I know nothing about love so I can recover. I am recovering from a fantasy that I projected on a young man's body. He provided music and language and fingers and a face that moaned into my pussy. I am never going to recover from being that alive.”

— Melissa Broder, amazon.com

“How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!”

— William Peter Blatty, amazon.com

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.”

— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, amazon.com

“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.”

— Elif Shafak, amazon.com

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“It’s not that he consumes me but that I consume myself, much like the ouroboros. I prepare for future suffering. I suffer today. I suffer so that the future suffering will feel like an old shoe. I’m a fish in a net, still living.”

— Jade Quinn, spilledmilkmagazine.com

“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.”

— Jacques Derrida, amazon.com

“It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

“This is the last poem where you love me and how I learn to hate myself.”

— Mtichell King, spilledmilkmagazine.com

“I never wanted anything as bad as I want you.”

— Amanda Lance, amazon.com

“You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.”

— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com

“You, a forever wound. You, a forever wound.”

— Lydia Havens, lydiahavens.com

“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”

— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, wnq-writers.com