Jude Deveraux Quotes

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive.

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else.

I'd do almost anything for you. I think I'd kill for you. But I'm not going to comfort you while you cry in my arms over another man. - Gage Travis

Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Every woman has had the guy she's broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you've been the person who has done those things.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.

The most powerful love songs always turn on the discrepancy between the act of declaring love and the knowledge that the ostensible addressee is no longer there, was never there, and could never be there.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved