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 noodle in the pasta salad of love.
Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back .. . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.
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Sarah Cross
Snape's patronus was a doe, ' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
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J.k. Rowling
...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.
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Elle Newmark
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.
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Carol Rifka Brunt
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
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Robert Goolrick
More Quotes By Kristan Higgins
You asked why I couldn't forgive you, " Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
I'll tell you something, Harpy, " he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames....
....And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me...." What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well." My future wife. The mother of my children.
I don't get it, guys, I continued. I'd want to date me. Why is it so hard for me? I'm wicked fun, I dress nicely, I'm friendly... I'd love to date me. Wouldn't you?
Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own.
