Lauren Oliver Quotes

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

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.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

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'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

I experienced unrequited love early.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

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's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

The only love that lasts is unrequited love.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.