Rick Riordan Quotes

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I haven't had groupies. I had admirers, but not groupies. But I've always been, you know, courted into the friend zone.

I love Rihanna, but I'm not gonna marry Rihanna.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.

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

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

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

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

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.

My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don't think it's spoken about enough in music. I've been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I've definitely tried to make that a part of my album.

"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."

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

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Love will not be spurred to what it loathes

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.