Joe Abercrombie Quotes

It's hard to put someone in the friend zone.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.

I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

I'm always after boys who don't want me, I'll tell you that much!

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

I've had girl friends who've said they liked me, and it's like, 'Look, it's not gonna go anywhere,' but if you say that nicely, then you can still be friends.

Girls rejected me a lot.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.