That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.
She walked down the lawn and surveyed the world as they'd both seen it--the wild limbs of the leaning apple tree, the golden-brown evening sky, the black silhouettes of the mountains. The trunk and th...
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of...
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.
...and said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me... I never got it.
Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.
The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it we...
...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it woul...
Granted, I'd waited a long time to hear those words. Would've sold a kidney-maybe two-to have heard them at one point. Now, though...they didn't have the same impact. They were, in fact, an overcooked...
Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.
I've decided to take this unrequited love, and quietly put it away in a corner of my heart as a bittersweet page of my youth.
I've dreamt of us falling in love and being together in a million different ways, yet I still wake up in the one way without you.
I thought that you could hear all my unspoken words.....for I misunderstood the language of my own love was so intense and your ears were so brittle!
She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.
I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.
The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.
Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?
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