Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

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.

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

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

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.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

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

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.

Unrequited love's a bore.

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

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

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

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

I experienced unrequited love early.

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.