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Unrequited love can both be painful but beautiful in its own form. Given the kind of beauty it brings along with itself, it is regardless to say that authors have brought out the emotion in an unexplainable way in their novels. Romance novels are abundant but finding that one quote in the hundreds of pages that sticks along with you is hard.

Today, I am going to share some of the most favourite quotes about unrequited love from some of the amazing writers that will leave you in a state of pain yet make you smile because the feeling is just that strong and beautiful.

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1.Looking for Alaska – John Green

2.Elle Newmark – The Book of Unholy Mischief

3.Carol Rifka Brunt – Tell the Wolves I’m Home

4.Kristan Higgins -  All I Ever Wanted

5.Tonya Hurley – Ghostgirl

6.Georgette Heyer – Venetia

7.Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

8.Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscur

9.Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight

10.W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

11.Janet Malcolm - Silent Woman

12.Joyce Carol Oates, "Death Mother"

13.Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

14.Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

15.Fernando Pessoa

Literature and its impacts in describing the feeling of love (in any form) is beyond words. The beauty and the pain behind each one of these excerpts itself show how much beauty and agony unrequited love holds. It is satisfying, the feeling of loving someone, but the end result of not being able to call the said person yours, is definitely gut wrenching. These top 15 quotes from authors across depict the pain, fun, humour and even the beauty behind the unrequited love.

By Somapika Dutta