“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've…”— Helen Fisher, ted.com
“Now it’s not hard to understand Why we just speak at night The only time I hold your hand Is to get the angle right Everything is slowing down River of no return You recognize my every sound There’s nothing new to learn.”— Amy Winehouse, azlyrics.com
“It's my responsibility, And you don't owe nothing to me, But to walk away I have no capacity.”— Amy Winehouse, azlyrics.com
“All I can ever be to you Is the darkness that we knew, And this regret I've got accustomed to.”— Amy Winehouse, azlyrics.com
“I can't say that I miss it the way it used to be because whatever it's been, I've never had the opportunity to claim it, to have it, to hold it.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“We try our hardest to force life into things that must die and that's what hurts the most.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“You can't force something to be more than what it should. Sometimes the people we love can't comprehend what we feel.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Your detailed text messages, his one-worded response. You make yourself available but he never finds the time. You're always calling first, he refuses to call at all but you're stuck because you fell, he claimed to love you but in fact he didn't fall.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Here you are covered in cracks from falling and not being caught. Cracks from loving someone incapable of reciprocating everything you gave them.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“You can't keep blaming yourself for someone's inability to be the type of mate you deserve.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“I am tugging on our love with both hands and even that isn’t enough to pull you out of yourself.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“I could’ve been the only good thing. We could’ve called it love.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the ‘life sentence’ of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain with two comp…”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“There may come a day when they fall out of love with you. Do not let this be the day you fall out of love with you. How long they choose to stay will never be your decision, but how you choose to rise is.”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com