“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

“i love you Ivy. I'll never stop loving you."
"I prayed for one more chance to reach you," he said, "to tell you how much I love you and to tell you to keep on loving. Someone else was meant for you, Ivy, and you were meant for someone else.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

“I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know," Mel said. "People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer