“It's hard wanting something, or someone, that you just can't have.”— Chip Johannessen, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com
“I am the album you always played but never listened to simply there for your convenience so you can fall asleep at night”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, amazon.com
“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“If the love you are offering another is not being welcomed or invited in, back up!”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Her name is a wooden ship, to try and force it into his glass bottle heart would only break her.”— Sabrina Benaim, youtube.com
“This was the pattern of my life: to love men who didn’t deserve me, and, knowing that, to yearn for their love anyway.”— Lisa Gardner, amazon.com
“I just wanna show you She don’t even know you, She's never gonna love you like I want to. And you just see right through me. If you only knew me We could be a beautiful Miracle, Unbelievable Instead of just invisible.”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“She can’t see the way your eyes Light up when you smile. She’ll never notice how you stop and stare Whenever she walks by. And you can’t see me wanting you the way you want her But you are everything to me.”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“I'm no one special, just another Wide eyed girl who's desperately in love with you Give me a photograph to hang on my wall, superstar”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“Look at my eyes, I whisper alone as I look at you from far away Just smile for me once, I can endure it just by seeing your face”— SHINee, open.spotify.com
“Even if my love is a love I’m doing alone It has all of the precious things fill up my heart”— IU, open.spotify.com
“Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I thought I wouldn’t live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a [person] and you know [they’re] not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.”— Bruno Mars, npr.org
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”— John Green, David Levithan, amazon.com
“They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us wants to turn around.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me
“Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely lovi…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com