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My heart is sair-I dare na tell,My heart is sair for Somebody.

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...

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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone h...

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Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a sma...

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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se...

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T. H. WhiteThe Once and Future King

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she ca...

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You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart doe...

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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, ...

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliff...

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First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, b...

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If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to he...

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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ...

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PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifi...

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Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And yo...

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Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,Though you are the sister of the river willows...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtfu...

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I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of ...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep. It was...

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We can stick anything into the fogand make it look like a ghostbut tonightlet us not become tragedie...

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Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who...

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I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "...

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The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you...

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I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what R...

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No." Magnus strode toward him. "I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around wh...

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I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired...

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I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and j...

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone ...

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Cesare PaveseIl mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have...

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Rats! There goes the bell... oh, how I hate lunch hours! I always have to eat alone because nobody l...

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But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s fa...

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I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my ...

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Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "alway...

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Graham’s thoughts of me were not entirely those of a frozen indifference, after all. I believe in th...

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Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She reced...

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Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to ...

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This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes with...

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She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a...

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I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, ...

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I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one par...

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Well, girls always love assholes,” said Platt, not bothering to dispute this. “Haven't you noticed?”...

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The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching t...

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I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

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And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in...

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She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her st...

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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the po...

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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealou...

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He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he ...

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I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I ...

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But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you ...

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So you take her to the pictures,trying to become a fixture.Inch by inch trying to reach her,all the ...

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In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, how...

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You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...

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To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought t...

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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indif...

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

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I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could ...

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one...

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...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the...

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Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me...

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Are you using me simply as a vulgar tool? Don't you care for me the least little bit? Let me suggest...

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I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

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Iris MurdochThe Sacred and Profane Love Machine

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a sup...

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Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it le...

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Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly al...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This ...

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Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm...

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Jeanette WintersonThe World and Other Places: Stories

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...

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Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie dow...

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Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...

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Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. A...

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Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. A...

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Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. A...

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Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. A...

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It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. ...

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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so m...

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She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in lov...

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With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the f...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to h...

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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that...

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The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's les...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover c...

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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of tr...

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I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing...

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I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

All of us have had this experience. At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m sufferi...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept