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Crush: The Art of One-Sided Love
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Jan 14 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Crush - The Art of One-Sided Love is the anatomy of loving alone.
This is not a book for everyone. It is for those who have loved silently and survived.
It is a quiet meditation on waiting, restraint, and devotion without return. Written in a restrained, poetic voice, this book explores what it means to love without possession and to endure without bitterness.
There is no chase here. No confession scene. No happy ending shaped for comfort.
What exists instead is waiting that becomes a way of life, silence that turns into discipline, and love that survives without permission, without response, without return.
This book does not teach how to move on.
It teaches how people stay.
Every chapter carries the weight of one-sided love the kind that is hidden, misunderstood, and never acknowledged, yet powerful enough to shape identity, patience, and endurance. It is written for those who were erased from someone's life but could not erase that person from their heart.
Crush - The Art of One-Sided Love is not meant to entertain.
It is meant to sit with the reader.
To feel heavy.
To feel familiar.
To feel true.
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