“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
“I loved you even when you forgot me. And—for a little while—you loved me back.”
– Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
“There is no such thing as unrequited love; the phrase ought to be stricken from the lexicon. Love is a thing shared, an intertwining of essential separateness into something not quite alone. There is nothing like it under the heavens. Like bread, it will not be made with flour or water alone; the recipe requires both. Guarding each other’s vulnerability provides the yeast that makes it rise, and salt from the tears that caring brings lends the finishing touch.”
– Andrew Levkoff, The Other Alexander
“Let her remain where she is. A constellation away.”
– Eric Gamalinda, My Sad Republic
“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
– Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950