Scott Turow Quotes

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

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

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

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

For whatever reason, I'm a good representation of the guy who doesn't get the girl.

I wasn't in any super duper serious relationships growing up, but yeah, I know what that heartbreak feels like.

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.