Franzen - Freedom
Gracq - Balcony in the Forest
Hedayat - The Blind Owl

In that order. It is not love you want to understand but yourself in relation to others and love.

>>24686268
>broke a woman's heart

Elaborate please...
*grabs the lotion

They move on as soon as the next dick slips inside them.

>>24686818
Not even. As soon as they spot the next dick desperate to go inside them.
The only thing that can break a woman's heart is insulting her appearance.

>>24686837
>>24686818
Not really, they never get over it if its real love. I wonder if OP's case counts because almost always real love is mutual, there's just some kind of disorganization or asynchrony of timing that destroys everything

>>24686268
No one understands what love is. In English it’s literally a meme word that is devoid of analytic content. You’re better off investigating similar concepts from other languages that are more clearly defined.

>>24686268
What did you do to her? I would recommend Eugene Onegin

>>24687021

She described how she felt so deeply that she almost loved me. I never felt that way about her or anyone else for that matter. If she was sure she felt that way, why is it love? What separates it from friendship? How do I identify love? Is it only attraction?

>>24687894
>she almost loved m
That was a manip attempt, based red-flagged bullet dodge king.

>How do I identify love?
I did that irrationally and my marriage is running strong desu.

>>24686933
Top contender for September's pseud comment of the year. Subversive one.

>>24687894
Could you elaborate on what she said and what your relationship was like before that? Also, you sound interesting. Have you really never felt romantically attracted to someone? What about sexual attraction?

>>24687914
wdym, the greeks had like 8 words for love. I bet a lot of people think love is just eros; they basically just worship aphrodite without understanding agape.

>>24686268
it's ok, anon
she will be riding chad's cock a week from now

>>24686268
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Lolita

>>24689351
Her and I spend time together discussing books that we both agree to read. We meet maybe once a week or every other week to share our thoughts. She then revealed how she felt about how she was essentially in love with me. I'm not sure how to answer your question and why I look to literature to understand. How does one know romance? What marks it separate from friendship? Is it just the physical attraction?

>>24690270
I guess the physical attraction is a major part of it. This might sound weird, but maybe you could understand love as just a desire to engage in "romantic activities" with a friend. Holding hands and kissing and having sex and living and raising children together and so on.
For example, maybe you have a friend you enjoy discussing books with but not hiking together. Well, here's a different type of friend that you enjoy "being a couple" with.
I don't know anything about it, but you genuinely might be aromantic. It's probably worth looking up.
I don't have a book rec for you.