Nowhere Expresso

Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely loving another was enough, you wouldn’t suffer because of unrequited love. As long as the other person was happy, there wouldn’t be any need to suffer because you weren’t being loved in return. What makes people suffer is the desire to be loved by another person. So I decided that romantic love and pure love for a person are not the same. And that by following this you could lessen the pain of unrequited love.

Hiroyuki Kano of Ōmu Shinrikyō

from Haruki Murakami’s Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche.

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No era una mujer romántica. No. Era una mujer sola que vivía con sus sueños y soñaba con estar con alguien. Buscaba un hombro en el que apoyarse, una boca que besar, un brazo al que agarrarse para atravesar la calle (…) un oído atento al que susurrar confidencias idiotas (…)

Las ardillas del central park están tristes los lunes- Katherine Pancol  (via nekrolady)

… al parecer es mucho pedir.

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