The Unrequited Quotes

“You’re in my fucking blood, and I’ll tear apart anyone who dares to fucking touch you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“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

“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

“A lover is the one who waits,” he paraphrases. “Then, I’ll wait. Forever”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“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

“I don’t regret falling in love; I only regret how it happened.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“I’ll always be brave rather than fearless.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Love yourself and the rest will follow.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“Silence is the worst response when trying to get someone to notice you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“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

“Loving myself means fighting for myself, fighting for my sanity, and I will fucking fight.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“What does requited love look like? I want to see it.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“We shouldn’t look for love stories where there are none to be found.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“Unrequited love and insomnia are longtime friends of mine. They might even be siblings—evil and uncaring with sticky fingers.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Words have the power to make things true.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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

“In this moment, we’re more than soul mates. We inhabit each other’s bodies. We are one. One skin. One heart. One need.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I was meant to live in the shadows and secrets. I can be Thomas’ secret, for a little while, at least—until I absorb all of his pain and set him free.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“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 my heart is anxious.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Bravery is like falling in love. You don’t know if the person will reciprocate, but still you fall.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I put so much stock into what I don’t want to be that I forgot what I could be. I’ve”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Say something. No, wait—say something helpful, not one of your sarcastic comments that help no one but you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I hear the shatter of my heart. I hear that sound from long ago when I broke the bottle of that expensive champagne when Caleb left. But this time around, the sound is like a gunshot, more jarring and deafening. It’s the sound of my castle falling through the air and crashing to the ground.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited