“Don’t be a masochist and a martyr – there’s nothing romantic about uncertainty.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“She is boundless. She is perfect. She is beautiful. I pale in comparison.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“News flash: nobody who disrespects you deserves your respect. Nobody who doesn’t love you deserves your love.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am empty beds. The safe bet. The road well-traveled. I am spilt wine and sweaty dance floors. I am the victim and the perpetrator. I am every song about Him. I am a place for cowards.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”— Peter S. Beagle, amazon.com
“The heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“You're beautiful, it's true. I saw your face in a crowded place, And I don't know what to do, 'Cause I'll never be with you.”— James Blunt, open.spotify.com
“I’m tired of being played like a violin. What do I gotta do to get in your motherfuckin’ heart?”— Rihanna, open.spotify.com
“I have theories about what it takes to talk to you again. I have theories about what normal is supposed to feel like. I have theories about how many times a heart can be heard. Just theories.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“This unrequited love business was driving him crazy. It was a feeling that took you over, mind, body, and soul. Worse than a drug that tore apart your flesh and spirit, and without which you simply could not live.”— Mirella Muffarotto, amazon.com
“However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never…”— Manna Francis, amazon.com
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“I did it all for love, only for love...an unrequited love. but what does that matter? What really matters is being close to the one you love; that was my goal.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com