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The Unrequited QUOTES

The Unrequited QUOTES

1 " I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

2 " Don’t you get it?” I spring up from the chair and pace. “It’s hopeless and I know it and I have no urge to date him. No urge, whatsoever. I don’t expect him to tell me he loves me because I don’t want him to and I know he won’t. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

3 " Thomas Abrams is magic. He’s a wordsmith, a baby whisperer, a blue-eyed asshole, but most of all, he’s like me: brokenhearted. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

4 " You’re in my fucking blood, and I’ll tear apart anyone who dares to fucking touch you. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

5 " Because unrequited love is like a dead, useless organ. It’s functionless. It’s sicker than a disease. You can cure a disease, but you can’t fix a defective soul. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

6 " It could almost be a story I’ll tell myself when I’m dying. The Harlot fell in love with the Fire-breather. It was beautiful and right. It was wrong and ugly, just like the earth beneath my feet. It was tragic and ecstatic. It was everything I’d hoped love could be. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

7 " Bravery is picking up a pen and writing. Bravery is gouging out words from inside you and then imprinting them on a page to make them permanent. Bravery is knowing they might not ever be read by anyone, that the art you leave behind, the contributions you make to the world, might never be known by anyone. Bravery is knowing all of that but doing it anyway. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

8 " A lover is the one who waits,” he paraphrases. “Then, I’ll wait. Forever "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

9 " You know, Layla, falling in love isn’t bad or wrong or even hard. It’s actually really simple, even if there’s no reciprocation. It’s the falling out that’s hard, but no matter how much you convince yourself otherwise, reciprocation is important. It’s what keeps the love going. Without it, love just dies out, and then it’s up to you. Do you bury it, or do you carry the dead body around? It’s a hard decision to make, but you have to do it. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

10 " Because I’m selfish, Layla. I’ll ruin you, set you on fire, and won’t even look back. I’ll take and take until you’re empty and hollow. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

11 " My heart is not an organ. It’s more than that. My heart is an animal—a chameleon, to be specific. It changes skin and color, not to blend in, but to be difficult, unreasonable. My heart has many faces. Restless heart. Desperate heart. Selfish heart. Lonely heart. Today "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

12 " I don’t regret falling in love; I only regret how it happened. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

13 " He doesn’t even look like he belongs to this world. He is too beautiful, too haunted to be human. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

14 " The day we met you watched the moon
While I watched you.
Tall and alone.
Dark and lonely.
You looked like my mirror.
Cracked and empty.
Dried up and chewed out.
I could have been yours.
If only you had looked at me. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

15 " Art is painful, Layla. It's potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It's a beast, and it's always starving. You feed it and feed it... until you have nothing left. But you don't mind because you'd rather chase the high of creating something than live in the darkness. It's insanity. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

16 " Love yourself and the rest will follow. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

17 " I’ll always be brave rather than fearless. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

18 " He is like my personal moon—unattainable, to be admired from afar. He is my cancer, slowly killing me, and I don’t even mind. “I’m "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

19 " Silence is the worst response when trying to get someone to notice you. "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited

20 " Unrequited. The word is written next to a passage that has been underlined with thick black lines. It says that the unrequited lover is the one who waits. He waits and waits, and then waits some more. He is the one who drops vital moments of his life, lets them scatter away, lets himself scatter away piece by piece for those three words. I love you. He is desperate and lonely, both by choice and circumstance. It’s "

― Saffron A. Kent , The Unrequited