Eleanor Catton Quotes

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

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.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

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

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

I certainly didn't want to date. I was through with guys.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

'LOVE' bit me. It was a marvelous idea, but it was also a terrible mistake. It became too popular; it became too popular.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.

No relationship. I'm not looking for one, either. I've tried it, but it's harder than it seems.

I've been in love with both men and women. I've been ghosted by both men and women.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

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

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There was a burning, agonizing pain in my chest, and I had no idea how it could ever be filled. It was one thing to accept that I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!