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

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

“Unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”

“Today was awkward, but I think that’s because it feels like a very awkward time. It isn’t about you, and it isn’tabout love. It’s about everything crashing together at once.”

“I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.”

“I don't want to love her. I don't want to be in love. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always.”