Patricia Briggs Quotes

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

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

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

Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

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.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

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

But I thought love would more than prevail.

We love even when our love is not requited.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

I was adored once too.

Unrequited love's a bore.