“Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.”

“Shura… are you… in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

“I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.”

Jude Watson (1956) novelist

“What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

“But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

“Alexander: How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still. tnt in love.”

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”

Winston Graham (1908–2003) British writer