asymmetrical love Quotes

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

It hurts being the one who loves more

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.