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Quotes About Past love

And that, despite the fact that we'd broken up seven years prior and I'd been the one to finally—firmly and permanently—walk away from him and on toward Henry, his engagement and upcoming wedding still ate away at my emotional landscape, as if him avowing himself to another woman was somehow a blight, a pox on me.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him.
~ Elena Ferrante
I love you too, but my time with you has passed.
~ Garth Nix
I wondered whether I wanted to hear more. The Jean business was long over, but even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.
~ Anthony Powell
I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.
~ Markus Zusak
My heart sometimes feels like it will burst for them both. The love has a strange fleeting intangibility about it and seems always to disappear and be converted into the past even before I have properly grasped it.
~ Ben Hatch
Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers—if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman. He alone carried a wound, as though a whole world had died.
~ Graham Greene
With his previous two wives, David hadn't felt like this. He
~ Shelia M. Goss
She could feel the old pain and despised herself for allowing it still to hurt. But how she had loved him!
~ Mary Balogh
Philip had been betrothed to Ruth for over forty years, but some nights he still thought about Sophie more than he cared to admit. The sliding door. The road not taken. The big what-if. The good one he'd let get away.
~ Harlan Coben
Whatever." I sighed inwardly at her mention of my ex, Brett Kline, who was front man for a band on the rise and one of the sexiest men I'd ever met. Like Gideon, he radiated sex appeal like a heat wave. Unlike Gideon, he wasn't the love of my life. I was never going to wade in that pool again.
~ Sylvia Day
My present crush is crushing my past crush...Can I summarize "Crush Crushing & now Crushed
~ Akansh Malik
I know you are mine, not in my life bout in my memories
~ pavankumarguptha
I know he loved you. A long time ago. I ain't jealous of you, Just thought you should know. You were never good enough for him, Or anything like me. So you might as well sit back, cause I ain't trying to show maturity.
~ Taylor Swift
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
~ Ouida
Go back into your yesterdays, at times, and bathe your mind in the beautiful memories of past love. It will soften the influence of the present worries and annoyances. It will give you a source of escape from the unpleasant realities of life and maybe—who knows?—your mind will yield to you, during this temporary retreat into the world of . . . plans which may change the entire financial or spiritual status of your life.
~ Tim Sanders
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
~ Whitney Otto
Con todo, no podía reprimir los vívidos recuerdos de aquella pasión, su cuerpo se ponía tenso y comenzaba a temblar. Por fin la tensión se aflojaba y una deliciosa sensación de plenitud recorría sus miembros. Su amor del pasado había vuelto a la vida.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
There are some who believe that perfume is magic. The fragrance of a thing is its purest essence. And certain scents can awaken phantoms of past love, of sweetest reminiscence." "Phantoms?" Daisy repeated, intrigued, and the other girl replied impatiently. "He doesn't mean it literally, dear. Perfume can't summon a ghost. And it's not really magic. It's only a mixture of scent particles that travel to the olfactory receptors in your nose.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Can we go back to the days where it was just you & me? We were so happy back then. Carefree, no drama, just a boy & a girl who were simply crazy for each other. I miss those days. All we have now are the memories of what we used to be, & the thoughts of what could have been.
~ Unknown
I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.
~ John Lennon