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Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
— William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

Ah, love. One of the fundamental forces of drama. Listed here are some of the ways Love Hurts.

No, there's nothing about Love Momozono here.

See also Romance Novel Plots .

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Tropes:

• Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder
• Accidental Marriage
• Adrenaline Makeover
• Airplane Of Love
• All Amazons Want Hercules
• All Gays Are Promiscuous
• All Girls Want Bad Boys
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders
• All Love Is Unrequited
• Allergic To Love
• Always Save The Girl
• Anchored Ship
• Anguished Declaration Of Love
  • Aborted Declaration Of Love
• Apply Head Directly To Lap
• Arranged Marriage
  • Runaway Fiance
• Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other
• Battle Couple
• Beast And Beauty
• Beautiful Dreamer
• The Beau Geste
• The Bet
• Beta Couple
• Better As Friends
• Birds Of A Feather
• Bodyguard Crush
• Bonnie And Clyde
• Boys Love
• Boy Meets Girl
• Boy Meets Ghoul
• Break Up To Make Up
• Brother Sister Incest
• Can't Act Perverted Toward A Love Interest
• Can't Have Sex, Ever
• Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them
• Care Bear Stare
• Cartwright Curse
• Caught In The Rain
• Celibate Hero
• Cherry Blossoms
• Childhood Marriage Promise
• Comforting Comforter
• Concert Climax
• Converse With The Unconscious
• Courtly Love
• Cupid Hates Odd Couples
• Dance Of Romance
• Dating Catwoman
• Dating Do Si Do
• Defenestrate And Berate
• Derailing Love Interests
• Destructo Nookie
• Did Not Get The Girl
• Discount Lesbians
• Don't You Dare Pity Me
• Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows
• Everyone Can See It
• Exiled To The Couch
• Falling For Someone Never Met
• Falling In Love Montage
• False Start
• Fan Preferred Couple
• Fantastic Romance
• Fatal Attraction
• Fatal Attractor
• Father I Want To Marry My Brother
• Fear Leads To Anger
• Female Gaze
• Fidelity Test
• First Girl Wins
• Florence Nightingale Effect
• Fourth Date Marriage
• Gaussian Girl
• Gauze Gauze Kiss
• Gay Option
• Gender Bender Friendship
• Genius Breeding Act
• Girl Of My Dreams
• Girls Love
  • Romantic Two Girl Friendship
• The Glomp
• God Couple
• Going Down With The Ship
• Hands On Approach
• Handsome Devil
• Happily Married
• Happiness In Slavery
• Headbutt Of Love
• Heart Is Where The Home Is
• Heartbroken Badass
• Her Heart Will Go On
• High School Sweethearts
• Hikaru Genji Plan
• Holding Hands
• Home Sweet Home
• Hooked Up Afterwards
• Hopeless Suitor
• Huge Guy Tiny Girl
• I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!
• I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
• I Have To Wash My Hair
• I Uh You Too
• If I Can't Have You then no one else will!
• In Love With Love
• In Love With Your Carnage
• Incest Is Relative
• Innocent Cohabitation
• Interspecies Romance
• Intertwined Fingers
• It Doesnt Mean Anything
• It's Not You, It's Me
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies
• I Want My Beloved To Be Happy
• The Jail Bait Wait
• Jumping The Gender Barrier
• Just Friends
• Kissing Cousins
• Kissing In A Tree
• Ladykiller In Love
• The Lady's Favour
• Language Of Love
• Last Girl Wins
• Last Minute Hookup
• Leave The Two Lovebirds Alone
• Like An Old Married Couple
• Like Brother And Sister
• Long Distance Relationship
• Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
• Lost Love Montage
• Love At First Punch
• Love At First Sight
• Love Bubbles
• Love Dodecahedron
  • Love Chart
  • Unwanted Harem
    • Tenchi Solution
  • Polyamory
• Love Epiphany
• Love Hotels
• Love Hurts
• Love Letter Lunacy
• Love Makes You Crazy
• Love Makes You Dumb
• Love Makes You Evil
• Love Martyr
• Love Potion
  • Love Is In The Air
• Love Redeems
  • Becoming The Mask
• Love Ruins The Realm
• Love Triangle
  • Betty And Veronica
  • Murder The Hypotenuse
    • Death Of The Hypotenuse
  • Opposites Attract Revenge
  • Sibling Triangle
  • Tenchi Solution
  • Triang Relations
  • Two Person Love Triangle
• Love You And Everybody
• Loves Me Not
• Loving A Shadow
• Mad Love
• Magnetic Girlfriend
• Make Out Point
• Make Up Or Break Up
• Married At Sea
• Married To The Job
• The Masochism Tango
• The Matchmaker
• Matchmaker Crush
• May December Romance
  • Mayfly December Romance
• Me Love You Long Time
• Meadow Run
• Mindlink Mates
• Mistaken Declaration Of Love
  • of which Accidental Marriage is something of a subtrope
• The Missus And The Ex
• Mistaken For Cheating
• Moe Couplet
• Mom Brings Milk And Cookies
• Moment Killer
• The Mourning After
• Mrs Hypothetical
• My Sister Is Off Limits
• Necktie Leash
• New Old Flame
• Nice Guys Finish Last
• No Accounting For Taste
• Nobody Thinks It Will Work
• No Going Steady
• No Guy Wants An Amazon
• No Guy Wants To Be Chased
• No Hugging No Kissing
• No Loves Intersect
• No Sparks
• Not Blood Siblings
• Oblivious To Love
• Official Couple
• One Head Taller
• One Last Fling
• The One That Got Away
• Opposites Attract
• Pair The Spares
• Parental Incest
• Parental Marriage Veto
• Pitbull Dates Puppy
• Playing Hard To Get
• Please Dump Me
• The Power Of Love
• Prank Date
• Precocious Crush
• Promoted To Love Interest
• Psycho Ex Girlfriend
• Race For Your Love
• Rape Is Love
• Red String Of Fate
• Redundant Romance Attempt
• Relationship Ceiling
• Relationship Text Upgrade
• Relationship Upgrade
• Rescue Romance
• Removed From The Picture
• Rich Suitor Poor Suitor
• Romance On The Set
• Romantic Plot Tumor
• Rule Of Romantic
• Runaway Bride
• Savvy Guy Energetic Girl
• Second Act Breakup
• Second Love
• Secret Relationship
• Settled For Gay
• She Cleans Up Nicely
• She Is All Grown Up
• She Is Not My Girlfriend
• Shock And Aww Couple
• Shotgun Wedding
• Sibling Switch Squick
• Sickeningly Sweethearts
• Single Target Sexuality
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man
• Sitch Sexuality
• Skater Boy Syndrome
  • Operation Jealousy
• Sleep Cute
• Smithical Marriage
• Smitten Teenage Girl
• Snow Means Love
• Sobbin Women
• So Happy Together
• Sorkin Relationship Moment
• Stalker With A Crush
  • Stalking Is Love
• Star Crossed Lovers
• Stood Up
• Strangled By The Red String
• Suddenly Sexuality
• Sweetheart Sipping
• Sweetie Graffiti
• Ten Minutes In The Closet
• The Dulcinea Effect
• The Ladys Favour
• There Is Only One Bed
• They All Said We Never Could Be Happy
• They Do
• Through His Stomach
• Together Umbrella
• Token Romance
• Token Shipping
• Train Station Goodbye
• True Love Is Exceptional
• Tsundere
• Twice Shy
• Unbroken Vigil
• Unholy Matrimony
• Unlucky Childhood Friend
• Unnecessary Disruptive Love Interest
• Unrequited Love Switcheroo
• Vampire Werewolf Love Triangle
• Victorious Childhood Friend
• Wacky Marriage Proposal
• Was It All A Lie
• What Does She See In Him
• What Measure Is A Humanoid
• When A Jerk Loves A Tsundere
• When She Smiles
• Where Da White Women At
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back
• Wedding Deadline
• What Is This Thing You Call Love
• Will They Or Won't They
• With This Ring
• Yandere
• Yawn And Reach
• You Have Waited Long Enough
• Your Cheating Heart
• Your Favorite
• Your Universe Or Mine
• Zip Me Up

See Also Japanese Culture - the parent of many of these tropes.

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