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16 Quotes That Describe The Agony Of Being In Love With Someone Who Loves Someone Else

16 Quotes That Describe The Agony Of Being In Love With Someone Who Loves Someone Else

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

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The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him.

— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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Snape's patronus was a doe. The same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

— Harry Potter, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

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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.

— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

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I had to get over him. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over him, lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. Life would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together.

— Kristan Higgins, All I Ever Wanted

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She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

— Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

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I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.

— Christine Seifert, The Predicteds

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I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

— Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

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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 of watching you be in love with someone else.

— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

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Even now I'll see her looking at him, her eyes milky yet full of longing, and all he ever gives her is a gentle, absent nod.

— Jane Avrich, The Winter Without Milk: Stories

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The side-chick is not just the second option; she’s also a human being.

— Kadia Blagrove, 5 Things That Go On Inside The Mind Of A ‘Side-Chick’

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I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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He keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm not an object
as he yo-yo's me away.

A friend is what we'll call it,
but my friend, he does not know,
each time it rains I love him—
so to his pocket, I must go.

He thinks he's being clever,
but I am not a fool;
his love ain't worth a penny,
so to my heart I must be cruel.

— Coco J. Ginger, A Pocket-Sized Girl

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i knew his heart
was yours
but i wanted
to become
an alchemist
to make gold
of the pieces
i received
because
all i ever felt
was the dark side
of his leaded heart.

— K.Y. Robinson, Wordporn

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I was deluded, and I knew it... For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality.

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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Not feel anything, Jennie? Are you fucking kidding me? I walk around here every day and I ache every fucking minute I’m with you. I’m so twisted up with loving you and hating you, I can’t breathe. I can’t keep my hands off you, but I can’t let myself kiss you because I might lose myself in you. I can’t make love to you because I’m afraid you’ll pretend I’m him. I know you want his arms around you, not mine. I know you want it to be his baby inside you, not mine. And I know you can’t love me back, no matter what I do, because you’re still so in love with your husband, you can’t even begin to see me.

— Lori Ryan, Negotiation Tactics

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