“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – KAHLIL GIBRAN

“You can like someone who can’t like you back, because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.” – DAVID LEVITHAN

“Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.” – RAE HACHTON

“Now I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.” – ZELDA FITZGERALD

“Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.” – MORGAN RHODES

“It does not hurt before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.” – JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

“I didn’t want to save you, I just didn’t know how to leave you.” – TARRYN FISHER

“It is true that those we love can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” – YANN MARTEL