Ann Brashares Quotes

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

His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

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.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.

He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

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.

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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

I thought I was loved.

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

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.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

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