Alex Iby

I Loved You More Than You Loved Me

In every relationship, someone always falls deeper than the other.
Sade Andria Zabala
October 5, 2017
“It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
Tagged: Love, realtionships, Move On, Dating
“To him, I was just a five minute smoke break. To me, he was an addiction.”
— Ashleigh Catibog-Abraham, WNQ-WRITERS
Tagged: Infatuation, Love
“You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.”
— J. K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
Tagged: Selfish, Exception, Alone
“I never wanted anything as bad as I want you.”
— Amanda Lance, Conviction
Tagged: Love, Lust, H4D-30
“i am sorry i mistook your body for a flood and drowned in it.”
— Andrea Mena, A ROOM IS A SPACE WHERE TIME STANDS STILL by ANDREA MENA
Tagged: Poetry, Unrequited Love, In love
“No matter how busy a person is, if they care, they’ll find time for you.”
— hipster
Tagged: Dating Advice
“Looking at you it occurred to me
I could sit around all day
wearing nothing but your kiss.”
— Shane L. Koyczan, Visiting Hours
Tagged: In love, kiss, puppy love, Romantic, Poetry, Falling In Love
“In every relationship someone is falling deeper than the other.”
— Dayne Flores, Dayne Flores
Tagged: Unrequited Love
“i am sorry i made you fill a space that was never there
i am sorry we are two mirrors placed in front of another
i am sorry i am a band-aid and band-aids are not enough”
— Andrea Mena, A ROOM IS A SPACE WHERE TIME STANDS STILL by ANDREA MENA
Tagged: rebound
“I cannot say
that I have gone to hell
for your love,
but often
found myself there
in your pursuit.”
— William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Crazy In Love, Poetry
“How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!”
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
Tagged: Horror Stories, Out Of Love
“I tell myself I know nothing about love so I can recover. I am recovering from a fantasy that I projected on a young man's body. He provided music and language and fingers and a face that moaned into my pussy. I am never going to recover from being that alive.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Stuck on Love, Heartache, Unrequited Love, Break Up
“I don't really know how to do things half-measures.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Tagged: Loving Too Much, Too Much, BPD
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know.”
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla: A Pomegranate Vintage Vampire Edition
Tagged: Selfish, Jealous, Unrequited Love, Crazy In Love
“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.”
— Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
Tagged: LDR, Clingy, Crazy In Love, I Miss You, Break Up
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
— Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read
Tagged: War, Break Up, Emotional Abuse, Prose, Culture, Personal History, Childhood, Immigrants, mothers, Poetry, Vietnam War
“It’s not that he consumes me but that I consume myself, much like the ouroboros.

I prepare for future suffering. I suffer today. I suffer so that the future suffering will feel like an old shoe. I’m a fish in a net, still living.”
— Jade Quinn, How To Eat Yourself
Tagged: Suffering, Crazy In Love, Break Up
“This is the last poem
where you love me and how I learn to hate myself.”
— Mtichell King, Fourth of July
Tagged: Break Up, I Hate Myself, Unrequited Love, Heartbreak
“Of course I wanted him to love me. To play house where I was his wife
and he my salesman always leaving late for work.”
— Mitchell King, Fourth of July
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, What If, Almost Lover
“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.”
— Jacques Derrida, The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond(trans. Alan Bass)
Tagged: Timeless Love, Love, The One, The One That Got Away, Break Up, One and only love
“You, a forever wound.
You, a forever wound.”
— Lydia Havens, Survive Like The Water
Tagged: Poetry, Break Up, I Still Love You, The One That Got Away