Unrequited / one-sided LOVE!!!
⟢ "I know you don't feel it. I've known for a long time. I just haven't figured out how to stop yet."
⟢ "You talk about her and your whole face changes and I have to just sit there and watch that happen."
⟢ "I keep showing up because some part of me thinks if I'm just there enough, present enough, good enough — and I know. I know how that sounds."
⟢ "I'm not waiting for you. I'm just not moving on yet. There's a difference I keep telling myself."
⟢ "You hug me the same way you hug everyone and I have to remind myself of that every single time."
⟢ "I know every little thing about you and you don't even know my favorite color and I let that happen. I did that to myself."
⟢ "I don't want to ruin what we have. What you have. What I have is something else entirely."
⟢ "You called me your best friend and I smiled and said yeah and went home and sat in my car for forty minutes."
⟢ "I think what kills me most is that you're not even doing anything wrong."
⟢ "I've talked myself out of telling you so many times I've lost count. Tonight almost wasn't one of them."
⟢ "You looked at me once — really looked — and I built an entire future out of three seconds. I know. I know."
⟢ "I'm happy for you. Genuinely, actually, from the bottom of this stupid inconvenient heart, happy for you."
⟢ "I keep thinking I'll get over it. Six months ago I thought I was over it. Here we are."
⟢ "You deserve someone who loves you like this. I just wish it could've been me."
⟢ "I'm going to tell you and it's going to change everything and I've decided I'd rather have the truth than keep protecting a version of us that only exists for me."
⟢ "Don't be kind about it. I can't handle you being kind about it."
⟢ "I think I fell in love with the way you made me feel about myself. That's a complicated thing to grieve."
⟢ "You're not mine and you were never going to be mine and I think some part of me knew that from the beginning."
⟢ "I loved you quietly for so long it started to feel like a personality trait."
⟢ "I'm stepping back. Not because I want to. Because I have to start wanting things that are actually possible."
⟢ "The worst part isn't loving you. The worst part is how easy it is. How completely natural and effortless and pointless."
⟢ "I hope one day someone loves you the way I did. I hope you notice it that time."
⟢ "I'm letting it go now. I'm putting it down. I'm going to keep telling myself that until it's true."
⟢ "You'll never know. I think that's the kindest thing I've ever done for either of us."
⟢ "I don't regret loving you. I regret how long I made myself small to keep doing it."