Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Unrequited love is always a great thing.
Literally, I kissed a girl, and, like, a week later, she broke up with me. I was like, 'Oh my God, was it that bad?!'
I dote on his very absence.
I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.
I experienced unrequited love early.
Nobody has any security in loving me.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.
All love is unrequited. All of it.
I don't want to hang out with some guy I just like.
I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.
The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.
