Junot Diaz Quotes

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

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

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

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

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.

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

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.

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.

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

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.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

And I'm stuck in it with no way out. I love you, and I can't stop, and you don't even care!

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.