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25 Quotes That Sum Up The Truth About Being 'Just Friends' With Someone You Love

She always belonged to someone else. 
Rania Naim
September 13, 2016
“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense feelings you have?”
— Kirsten Corley, Because I Can’t Make You Love Me If You Don’t
Tagged: Love, Rejection, Bravery, Feelings, Unrequited Love
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Love, real love, Reciprocation
“Sometimes I want to know what you're thinking of. But then I get scared I'm not on your list.”
— Shahd El Hadidy, Raodtrip
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Curiosity, Fear
“I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“You can’t love someone into loving you.”
— reminisceandremember, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Unrequited Love
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.”
— Neil Gaimon, The Sandman Vol. 8: World's End
Tagged: Falling In Love With A Friend, Unrequited Love, Love, Love & Relationships, Falling In Love
“Where most women get confused is in that gray zone, the area where he shows interest but nothing really comes of it, and you just don’t know how he feels. But here’s the thing: you do know. It’s obvious. He is somewhat into you, he has fun with you, but he doesn’t like you enough. Or maybe he does like you but just doesn’t think you would work out as a couple – and if that’s how he feels, then he probably isn’t the right guy for you.”
— Sabrina Alexis, This Is How To Tell If A Guy Really Likes You
Tagged: Signs A Guy Likes You, The Grey Zone
“Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone.”
— Tina Tran, Out of the Ruins
Tagged: Hell, Missing You, Unrequited Love
“People can't just fuck. They can't. One or the other gets caught up in emotion, someone gets hurt.”
— Megan Hart, Dirty
Tagged: friends with benefits, Sex, Emotion
“And every time we’re together, I tell myself not to hope that this time you’ll just fucking see that there is nobody else for you. That you’ll give me a chance to prove we’re good together.”
— Megan Hart, Hold Me Close
Tagged: Hope, crushes, Unrequited Love
“Isn't it such a tragic thing when you see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Just Friends, Pain, hurt
“Beware of the word friend. It can often be used by men and women, that love them to excuse the most unfriendly behavior. Personally when I’m picking friends, I like the ones who don’t make me cry myself to sleep.”
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Tagged: Just Friends, Relationships Ending, Letting Go, goodbye
“Real love doesn’t ask to be your friend, when they know your whole heart is in it. Real love, loves you back because they realize your worth.”
— Kirsten Corley, When You Said We Were "Just Friends" I Don't Know Who You Were Trying to Fool
Tagged: Just Friends, Letting Go, goodbye
“He was always there to help her, she always belonged to someone else”
— Maroon 5, She Will Be Loved
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Song Lyrics, Songs
“It doesn't count unless he says it sober.”
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just not That Into You
Tagged: Dating Advice, Relationship Advice
“It's really simple: if they love you, you'll know it. If they don't, you'll constantly wonder if they do.”
— Soft Grung
Tagged: How Do I Know If They Love Me?, real love
“You can’t be friends with someone who’s in love with you if you don’t love that person back the same way.”
— Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Unrequited Love
“You can't keep blaming yourself for someone's inability to be the type of mate you deserve.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“You can't force something to be more than what it should. Sometimes the people we love can't comprehend what we feel.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, One Sided Love
“I can't say that I miss it the way it used to be because whatever it's been, I've never had the opportunity to claim it, to have it, to hold it.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Undefined, Almost Relationships
“You wanna know what the truth is? I still love you and I probably will love you for a very long time. But I can't just be your buddy, because as much as i enjoy the concept of being "just friends" in reality it's a bizarre form of torture and I'm just not willing to participate in it. so right now what i wanna do is just move on and get over you and the only way for me to do that is to not be around you anymore.”
— Dawson's Creek, DAWSON'S CREEK: COMPLETE SERIES
Tagged: Love Advice, Just Friends
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
— Dave Matthews Band, 40 Bittersweet Quotes That Sum Up The Truth About Love And Relationships
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Just Friends
“But friends don’t lean in just a little too close. They don’t grin and slap your hand as you try to change the song in the car or flirt with you in the street at 2am.”
— Steven Nolan, If We’re Going To Stay ‘Just Friends’ Then Please Don’t Make Me Hope For More
Tagged: Just Friends, Love, Friendship, Relationships
“And he said he just wants to be friends. And every idiot knows that´s just code for go away.”
— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Friends, Love, Just Friends