„Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.“

— George Orwell

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„I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.“
— Anaïs Nin
„In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.“
— Tennessee Williams
„Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the kindest thing I ever did in my life was never to let Matthew know to what degree he had destroyed my peace and my happiness.“
— Stephen Fry
„He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable“
— Jodi Picoult