Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

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.

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

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.

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

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

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.