Ann Brashares Quotes

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

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

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.

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

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 think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

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

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

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

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

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

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

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

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

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.