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Jonah shifts to lean back a little farther, moaning as he does. “Holy heck, my leg hurts,” he says, still with that strained, forced lightness.Again, Hallelujah mimics his tone. “‘Holy heck’? That’s cutting it close.”“I have a gash in my leg the size of the Mississippi. I can say whatever I want.
— Kathryn Holmes
Are you hurt?” the woman asks.“Just my—” Even after the water, her voice comes out as a dry hiss. She clears her throat and tries again. “Just my ankle.”“Can you tell us where the others are? Are they . . . ?” Charlie fades off, but she knows how the question ends.“They’re still out there. Still alive.” Hallelujah will not think about the alternative. But by not trying not to think about it, she’s thinking about it, and it’s making her feel panicky. “I was the only one who could walk, so I—” She gulps. Draws in a shaky breath.Charlie dismounts his bike and squats down next to her. “Go on,” he says. His voice is soft. His accent is southern. But not hillbilly southern. Deep South. He’s not from around here either.She can’t believe her mind is wandering like this. She tries to focus.“We found—Jonah found a trail, and I followed it to this road. They’re at a campsite by the trail. I . . .” Hallelujah falters. “I don’t know how far. I wasn’t walking very fast. We haven’t eaten in . . . a while. And Rachel—she’s sick. She was throwing up. And Jonah cut his leg and it wouldn’t stop bleeding. . . .”“Jesus,” the woman says.
— Kathryn Holmes
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going to be in darkkkk.
— Deyth Banger
Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. “Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. It’s a great job, don’t get me wrong. It’s the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .”“Get hurt?” Betty suggests. “Find trouble? Pass out? Break arms?”“All of the above.” Nick laughs.My hand finds Nick’s wrist and I grab onto its thickness. “You know, I’m the patient here. Where’s the bedside manner? Where’s the sympathy?”“Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren’t the person whose crap is hanging out there for the world to see,” Betty says.
— Carrie Jones, Captivate
We’ll fight them. We took down my dad. We’ve taken down so many since then. We’ll take down these jokesters too.”“I will never let anything happen to you,” Nick growls into my hair. “I will die before you get hurt again. So help me God, Zara. I will die."“Me too.”“What?”“I will die before I let anyone hurt you or Issie or Dev or Gram or . . .” I stop and pull my head away from his chest so I can look up at him. “This list is getting kind of long and melodramatic, isn’t it?”He laughs. His hand moves slowly up my spine. He starts leaning down for a kiss. “Yeah. It is.
— Carrie Jones, Captivate
Guys, he’s hurt bad.”The blonde scrambled to him. She tore the wounded boy’s shirt open. A river of blood ran down his chest.“Oh, God, no,” the blonde cried.Lana pushed her aside and laid a hand against the pumping wound. “He’ll live,” Lana said. “I’ll fix him.”“What do you mean, you’ll fix him?” the blonde demanded. “We need stitches, we need a doctor. Look at how he’s bleeding.”Lana said, “What’s your name?”“Astrid, what does it matter? He’s…” She stopped talking then and leaned in close to see. “The bloodflow is slowing.”“Yeah. I noticed that, too,” Lana said dryly. “Relax. He’ll be fine. In fact…” She tilted her head to get a better look at him. “In fact, I’ll bet when he’s not covered in blood, he’s cute. Your boyfriend?”“That’s not what it’s about,” Astrid snapped. Then, in a low voice, like she didn’t want the others to hear, she said, “Kind of.
— Michael Grant, Gone
Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism or aggression but, at the rare moments one can imagine it, always love.
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love
...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.
— Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies
There are many different forms of betrayal, but one hurts the most, Betraying Your Self.
— Auliq Ice
There were times in meeting I was called a baby sitter, a social worker by my colleagues. Now that we have a different leader, he looks at it the way I look at it, and he supported me in what I was doing. There were times he saw me crying, and he would comfort me and say that’s okay. Commissioner Paul Farquharson was one of my biggest supporters.It used to hurt me, because I was trying to help somebody and they say I was babysitting. Don’t tell me I am babysitting, now that I have retired now I am babysitting. So not because I was trying to reach out and work with those children, don’t say I was babysitting them. I work the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for 22 years and I was rough in CID. I realize CID was the end result, because whenever you get to that stage you are almost finished. It is in line with the broken window theory, if you can save those youngsters before they start committing those big offenses, then they wouldn’t reach CID. Crime prevention was a part of my job, I believe in going out there and trying to prevent that youngster from committing crime. He should respect other people’s property. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
— Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness you'll never get back.
— Andy Biersack
A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her
— her death would have been one wound too many that day.
Sometimes, we want what we want. Even if we know it's going to kill us.
— Trevor Driggers
We are all haunted. Some more than others. We are all hurt in our own unique ways. But whatever happened to us, it doesn’t matter. None of it matters. You’ll be fine. Just never forget that you are not what happened to you. You are who you choose to become.
— C.M. Rayne, Dark Oracle
He closed the makeshift plywood door, sealing the space so Ethan would not have to hear any sounds from the outside world: not the voices of men, not the scream of steam engines as they arrived at the nearby station. The only sounds would be of their bodies breathing, of their clothes rustling, of skin moving against soft skin.The shack was small and humble, but it was cozy and private, and lit with a light that did not seem to come entirely from the lantern. Afterword, Ethan wept, and Love whispered things meant to make him feel safe. Were it possible, he would have traded his immortality to remain with this beautiful soul, to concentrate all that love on a human who needed it so.
— Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death
Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Often in life, you are forced to choose a different path than the one you desire, it is not fair, but who said life is fair. It is better sometimes to count your blessings instead of your losses and move on; although some losses are unforgivable. When deep in your heart, you reach to the conviction that "you did what you had to do and more", moving on will be second to nature for you. It is never easy but in the long run you will thank yourself for making that choice
— Zena Abou Alnaser
-I would die for you-You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before you and beg on my knees to get you back? -Because you're feeling alone -If need your love-You don't need me, you only need a person-And you're that person-No I'm not-But I love you-That what I do
— M
What we don't know can't hurt us.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
When someone tells you that you have done something that has hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.
— Karon Waddell
Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.
— Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE.
— Shannon L. Alder
We carry the world. They did. All those young men did. They carried the world, and it was heavy, and they didn't know what to do with it. Was this the rest? Was this the war? Things had already spun out of control and they weren't always as black and white or as right or wrong as Nick liked to think.
— Matthew J. Hefti, A Hard And Heavy Thing
You know what hurts the most? It's when someone made you feel special yesterday and behaves as if you don't exist today.
— Reddit
We always hurt what we love most
— Ramona Wray, Hex: A Witch and Angel Tale
The drugs took over and she fell asleep then.Only her face was visible, the medical equipment acting as some hideous hijab for her.
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people
— Chris Abani, The Face: Cartography of the Void
To love and be loved is so precious. And, when you lose the person you love, it tears a deep hole in your heart. If the gap and void within your heart is deep, so was the love
— Luan
One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.
— Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword
The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
I didn’t thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?
— Monika Basile, Quietly Crazy
Feeling hurt and not being able to recover is a consequence of 'Love until it hurts'.
— Rohan B Rebello
Years pass by swiftly and the hope within me wanes and fades away like a branch cut off from a tree. Will I ever find you? Will my heart ever rest upon your chest and hear the sound of your heartbeat? Thankful to the Gods above that you exist after all and I have finally found you. Will the doubts within me be erased completely when my eyes gaze upon yours as I witness you in flesh? Will my hands ever feel your warmth and caress your skin? Will my mouth ever taste your lips and indulge on the juices that flow from it? Will my heart caper scamper triumphantly at the joy of finding you? As the doubts and fears within me are silenced to death? Will I meet you? I wonder.
— Phindile Khumalo
For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She’d succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck … again.
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
When he opens his mouth to speak, I place a finger on his
— A.G. Howard, Ensnared
And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.
— Amy Engel, The Revolution of Ivy
Love; just a four letter word that is easy to spell yet impossible to define. I may need her to prove I'm worthy of fighting for, but for her, I'm all set to go to war.
— E.S. Carter, Three
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
— Mother Teresa
Love hurts us all, no matter how old or young we are.
— Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much.
— Glad Munaiseche
No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.
— Mordecai Richler
If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you.
— Ken Poirot
I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.
— Julie Anne Peters
Love and betrayal comes hand in hand.
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy
The weak fall, but the strong shall rise up as a phoenix else we will be no more than a pile of ash.
— Luan
Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.
— Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls
Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt.
— Maria G. Cope, Bottom Feeder
The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.
— Steve Maraboli
Saving you was worth losing what we might've had.
— James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.
— Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.
— Holly Black, White Cat
There are no sides in suicide.
— Anthony Liccione
It was a simple truth he had understood for years, people hurt others when they are hurt, and hurting them back won't make a damn difference.
— Taylor Adams
How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first.
— V.E. Schwab
She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.
— Alison Croggon, The Naming
And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.
— Sara Keddar
One very beautiful virtue one can master is to learn to ignore; to ignore perceived and intended slights no matter how infuriating they might feel. Not to ignore in anger, rather, to ignore with understanding. However, to keep account for future purposes, to ignore with adept skill and less hurt. Life just becomes easier and more beautiful.
— Ufuoma Apoki
You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't want him to hurt like I'm hurting. I don't want him to miss me like I'll miss him. I don't want him to be falling for me like I've been falling for him.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
When you've been hurt enough as a kid (maybe at any age), it's like you have a trick knee. Most of your life, you can function like an adult, but add in the right portions of sleeplessness and stress and grief, and the hurt, defeated self can bloom into place.
— Mary Karr
An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.
— Diane Samuels
I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
— Earl Lovelace
We crafted everything that hurt us into art.
— Jenim Dibie
You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the things is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?
— Stephen Chbosky
winter is no stranger to cold hearts.
— Sakhile Koaho
Please tell me the truth about yourself.
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.
— Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow
Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me
— Earl Lovelace, Salt
Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck
And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.
— Phil Klay
Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, fight less. And most important.. Remember that we are all one! We are love! I LOVE YOU ALL!
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
MOMENTSI saw you firstYou looked exactly The same as beforeTall and awkward and shyI walked towards youMy hands clammy I felt cold insideMy insides were shakingCant runThis is it.U saw meYour face brightenedA smile painted on your faceI missed itYour smileIt brought back the pastYou walkedI walkedNearerIt feels like in theMoviesTwo peopleA boy and a girlMeeting halfwayHoping for a happyEver afterI stopped Right before I reached youI realizedThis isn't like the moviesI turnedI told myselfDon’t smileYou reached meCloseSo closeI felt the urgeTo touch youHug youAnd maybeKiss youThere weren't HellosOnly silent prayersSmiling You reached for my handGiving me somethingYou knew I loveIt was awkwardYou standing thereMe standing thereSo closeToo closeYet so farI looked up to youI tried to ask myselfAre you for real?You smiled widerShy but happyYou left as fastAs you came backIt was for a secondI hated timeI wished it wasA little bit longerWith that,I knewI still want you.
— Marianne Escobar
No achingJust numbnessSadnessThat feeling as ifU miss himBut then you realized,Maybe he wasn't yours To begin with.AndThere were no memories To Reminisce,Only pain.Because you knewFrom the very beginningHe didn't love u as muchAs you loved him.And that isthe most painfulAnd crucial part.Or maybe not.Maybe it's the truth That there isStill an ounce ofLove that shouldn'tBe there at all.Not after everything.
— Marianne Escobar
Because she was a blank mural and you wrote all over her.
— Jasmine Sandozz, Thoughts of a Burning Heart
Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once.
— Sara Keddar
Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without!
— Ken Poirot
All of us, have our antenna up for people who might harm us in one way or another, not just people who might hurt us physically, but also for people who might treat us unfairly, take advantage of us, cheat us or fail to do their share. And we react very strongly to be misleading by other people, is part of human nature, to guard against being hurt and exploited.
— Mark Leary, Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior
some of the people with the best smiles are actually broken inside
— Mya Waechtler
We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put out one's hands—like some dancer, in a trance, just put out one's hands—and touch all the people and tell them: I'm sorry. I love you. Thank you for your e-mail. Thank you for coming to see me. Thank you. But we can't. We can't. On the little life raft of Mark only one other person could fit. Just one! And so, thwarted, we inflict pain. That’s what we do. We do not keep each other company. We do not send each other cute text messages. Or, rather, when we do these things, we do them merely to postpone the moment when we'll push these people off, and beat forward, beat forward on our little raft, alone.
— Keith Gessen, All the Sad Young Literary Men
What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...
— Judy Blume, Forever . . .
So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.
— Marie Lu, Champion
No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I have a talent for hurting things," Jack perches the rifle on his cocked hip, and it's so insufferably arrogant I want to shove him into the ball pit next to us and slash or furiously make out with him. "But we always knew that, didn't we?
— Sara Wolf, Brutal Precious
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace
— Lenore Kandel
Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.
— Kemi Sogunle
The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
— Monika Ramzy
For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death.
— Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl
She is not with me,this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari
To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.
— Asma Naqi
I don’t know if he’ll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.
— Gail McHugh, Pulse
He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.
— Debra Anastasia, Saving Poughkeepsie
....hurts like love, I guess. There's always room for more.
— Heather R. Blair, Blood in Fire
my enemies don't scared me .. but the people who say I love you
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.
— Bart Yates, The Brothers Bishop
So, what should I do right now?Stop crying, open your heart, and pray.
— Sintia Astarina, Taman Pasir
You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.
— Michelle Hodkin
A year of life spent with someone you love feels like a lifetime. Someone destroys that love it feels like a lifetime is gone. Why do people want to take lifetimes away?
— Kensley Hagan
But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.
— Debasish Mridha
I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
Cry For Those Who Cares For You And Not For Them Those Who Makes You Cry
— Jay Patel
The thing isI loved you so muchand I would have done everything for youAnd it keeps me up on nights like thiswhere the moon shines brighter thanthe sun’s glare in the morning skythat you’re not here with meAnd the thing isI loved you so muchmore than you deservedand it wasn’t enoughI wasn’t enough.
— Elisabeth Van den Abeele
When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
— L.J. Smith
Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.
— Alex London
You can't hurt a heart that does not exist
— Kat Unda
It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It's part of being alive. You have to accept it's a piece that every single person carries. It's what makes us human.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point
You said you love me, how could words be so empty
— Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.
— Steve Maraboli
You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Forgive the beggar attention is all that’s seekedand in return I never givethis will hitthis will turn around and it will bite backI know I believe that this is just another stepanother mistake that will teachso, forgive that asker of questionsand engross yourself in her mistakesand runfast never come backunderstand there’s nothing morenothingnot once morenot everforgivewalk away and live on.
— Isabel Aanya Leigh
Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human.
— Vikki Wakefield, Friday Brown
I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
— Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water
I cared her, I adored her, I loved her a lot, But in the End it didn't matter at all..!!
— shady_N
Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
— Michel de Montaigne
It is always the one closest to you that hurts you the most.
— Davin Turney
When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.
— Teresa Heinz Kerry
So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d always known Dell would disappear one day; he was too decent, too golden. This place never tainted that, and I don’t know why. He made me feel dirty. Dark and corrupt. It hadn’t always that way, and I don’t know when it changed... but I felt it now. I only knew I couldn’t hold onto him tight enough to stop those long legs carrying him away somewhere better. A day’ll come when everybody’s had you and nobody wants you anymore... As Dell drove Erin away in their rent-a-car from the Holiday Inn into the early evening traffic, I felt the walls closing in, the world swelling around me, and I knew that day had finally come. Tomorrow, I leave Paradise. It’s true. Shanise was right.I turned away as the car disappeared up the slushy street. That was the last time I saw them alive.
— H. Alazhar, City of Paradise
Realization hits you several times until you can't get up.
— Davin Turney
If your success is as a result of a trail of tears & hurt you left in anothers life, Karmas' watching.
— Jaelle Siang'a
How can you expect people never to hurt you? That is not possible, not even in disney land.
— Paul Bamikole
The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.
— Akshay Dubey
Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.
— Bethany Crandell, Summer on the Short Bus
Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experiencethat is enslaving you with its torment,there is the willingness to be free.Are you willing? Or do yo just want to wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?
— Gangaji
Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
it’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way.
— Anna Jae
The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
Rage and hurt coalesce into a stone in my chest and as I take another gulp of my father's prized whiskey, I hear myself say, "Tell me about your plan.
— Melissa Simmons, Resistance
I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.
— Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn
I am not being able to figure out what is your type.slowly you changed and became a devil or you were just hiding your real face since the very beginning.
— Mnzu magar
When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.
— Andy Biersack
Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don't care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they had no hand or say in the matter, that whatever happened could not be stopped no matter what they personally did, and so blame can never be placed upon them.
— T.A. Miles, Blood Lilies
He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.
— Abbi Glines, Existence
Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.
— William Steig, The Real Thief
Why do you stay with me?" he whispered. He wished he hadn't said it once the words were out of of his mouth, wished he could pull them back, but Laurie didn't seem fazed at all. In fact, he just smiled a crooked smile and kissed him again. "Because I don't want to dance by myself," he whispered.
— Heidi Cullinan, Dance With Me
The people who care about you may not tell you your blind spots fearing to offend/hurt you. Open up and ask their feedback and get enlightened.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
The last thing I wanted was to fall in love because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.
— Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
I've a long time trying to lovea brother whose only way of touching me is pain.A long time escaping into music.Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect mefrom the hurting parts of life.I've been winning awards, applause,acclaim for my trumpets since I was in grade s
— Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go
No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and it would never lessen the hunger I had for that woman.
— J.L. Berg, Ready for You
There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish
— Novellina A., Fantasy
Love, is a Bloody Razor BladeLove came like fire from aboveand disappeared like a wet dream,underneath a leaky kitchen sinkFor weeks it went drip, drip, drip…until it could be, eventually fixedIt took a long time to depreciateall the things I never had to sayBut there are only so many things that make sense at the endThe rest is merely X-Acto knife love, andLove, is a bloody razor blade
— Phil Volatile, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
Because I love him so much and it hurts
— Novellina A., Fantasy
The most beautiful women in the world are the ones that can stand as rivals on the battlefield of love, yet they can still see each other’s pain. They can set down their swords for only just a moment to acknowledge the beauty of the warrior that stands before them—the passion, the fearlessness and the relentless fire that never gives up. It is in this moment that we learn that it is not the man that sees the worth of the hearts torn by battle in his honor; it is the women who have suffered for so long. Two women that can “see” clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war in love.
— Shannon L. Alder
Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this world. If everything were to disappear, at least I was thinking it didn't matter anyway. Even if in the future, everyone left me, it would be alright. I would never get hurt.
— Jun Mochizuki
Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives?
— Karina Halle, Love, in English
I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt
—  wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery as my skin. I liked the burn and hoped it took everything I'd been wishing for and turned it to ashes.
Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.
— Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital
Everybody feel pain except a woman who kicks a man in the balls.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Leave. Just leave while I am still strong enough to let you go.
— Perky Peppermint
it's hurt but I love you I'm strong
— anirka witri
The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.
— Neil Gaiman
It hurts because there is no alternative to Love.
— Himanshu Chhabra
The danger with relationships when we are vulnerable is that we may not be able to evaluate them honestly and from a godly perspective. What is bitter may look sweet because of our weakened position.
— Lois Mowday Rabey, Snare: Understanding Emotional and Sexual Entanglements
SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past
— José N Harris
For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.
— Travis Neighbor Ward, Come Find Me
So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
I won’t tolerate her hurting you, my son. I’ll kill the bitch first.”“Weren’t you the one who tried to cut father’s throat before he Claimed you?”"He deserved it,
— G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually
I hear a small voicein the back of my mindand it is chanting a prayer:‘Please don’t fall in love again,please don’t fall in love again.’Maybe this time I will listen.Maybe this I will learn.
— Tina Tran
Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.
— Sanhita Baruah
I always knew death of this relation would be the death of my life.
— M. Ali
But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That’s how you end up hurt.
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre: Redemption
Nothing hurts me, Low Born. Absolutely nothing.”“How is that possible?” And for some reason he sounded as if he truly cared about her answer.“When you stop feeling anything, you find it quite possible.
— G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually
... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.
— Shannon Noelle Long, Second Coming
Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen
—  we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes.
its better to get hurt now than to get hurt later.
— Mohammed Suleman Khan
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
Please just tell me where you are.His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
It wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt.
— Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun
— Cornelia Funke, Reckless
The feeling of being hurt, is the proof that you are in love.
— Ahmed Ayub
Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.
— Jennifer Brown, Bitter End
When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again?
— Veronica Rossi, Roar and Liv
We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Wall Around Your Heart
I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then... Maybe. No promises.
— Ann Aguirre, Horde
I am sure that music was never meant to sound this harsh, this painful.
— Tabitha Suzuma, A Voice in the Distance
A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on.No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.
— Jolene Perry, My Heart for Yours
I excuse myself and go to the ladies’ room. Washing my hands, I give myself a little youcan do this type pep talk. When I walk out, I see him leaned up against the wall opposite the door."Long line for the men's room?" I try to joke, moving past him.His hand circles my wrist, stopping me. I inhale, frozen in place. My back is to him. I don'ttry to pull away. I can't move. I just look down at his hand, staring at his damn freckle."Sarah.""What are you playing at, Will?'"Playing?" He tugs my arm back so I'm facing him. "I promise you this is no game.""Alright, what do you want from me? Is that better?" I practically spit."Everything." He's moved his hands up to hold my biceps. "I want everything from you."Everything. That one word still breaks my heart when I think back to that night.My head snaps back as though he's struck me. Don’t cry, just don’t cry. "I gave youeverything once. Now I have nothing left for you."I pull myself from his grasp and hurry back to the table.
— Carey Heywood, Him
It was all I could do not to fall on my knees and weep like the bastard she always said I was, and I was a breath away from begging her to run away with me. I can’t believe I’m admitting this on tape—I was standing at that table, she hit me with that look of hers, and I swear to God all I wanted to do was grab her hand, press it into my heart and say, “Let’s get the hell out of here.” I was even willing to ride the 6 all the way to Houston Street. No kidding, I was going to take the subway to prove my love. And if she said no, I was going to kidnap her until she agreed to stay.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
I know that feeling when your heart repels your body, not new for me.
— Shreya Gupta
but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.
— Astrid Yrigollen, His Black Wings
I know you’re hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now, you won’t win. You know she has the advantage, Taylor. I’ve taught you this. Please, we just need to get out of here.
— Embee, Tess Embers
Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom. It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt.Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.
— Rachel  Thompson, Broken Pieces
Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
He still loved her—and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d spent the past nine days with a shadow of her soul, why he’d sought to reset the entire universe to have her back.
— Lauren Kate, Rapture
...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.
— Stephen King, Cujo
I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.
— Paula Heller Garland
What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d 
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
Don’t let your tears be seen
—  it may hurt someone else’s happiness.
A love you always have to fight for isn't worth it
— Yuuki Obata
It hurts to see your loved one in pain, but it hurts more to see you cannot do anything about this pain.
— Namrata, 25 Strokes of Kindness
So you cast yourself aside in advance? To save yourself some hurt, you hurt yourself? What kind of way is that to live?'She shrugged one shoulder. 'A safe way?'He released a gusty laugh. 'Is that what you call safe? It's not a safe way, Sparrow, it's a pathetic and lonely way. Sparrow, sometimes life is scary. Get over it, and live.
— Jill Williamson, From Darkness Won
Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.
— Joanne Crisner Alcayaga, Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing
Julia had no trouble believing that, but she suspected his challenging demeanor was his way of keeping people at a distance. Sadly it was a strategy she understood all too well.Trusting by nature, she'd learned the hard way that when you let someone too close, they discovered all kinds of things about you. That kind of intimate knowledge gave them the chance to hurt you so deeply, it took all your strength just to put one foot in front of the other.
— Mia Ross, Jingle Bell Romance
This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.
— Heema Shirvaikar
I knew it was going to hurt. No one sends such a long text, using so many words just to say "I love you.
— Katherine Intac
This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there will come a time when you will be tempted to run away. Would that be right? Would that be fair? As every matriarch discovers, entire seasons will pass without reward. As your mate's peculiarities add up, what do you do? Wait!pg 45
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.
— Douglas Self
You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe.
— Paula Heller Garland
Love is never hurtful; It’s never about forgetting who you are, it’s about exploring yourself more.
— Ankita Singhal
Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I didn't make any mistake. I know that when he nearly asked me to marry him it was only on impulseIt is part if a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing - Rose with Simon, Simon with me, me with Stephen and Stephen, I suppose, with that detestable Leda Fox-Cotton. It isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Even though your words hurt the most, I still want to hear them everyday.
— Andrew Davie
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Karsten Andersen
I wanted to hurt in a way I understood.
— Mark Soluka
Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.
— Mark Twain
I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
— Melody Carlson, Damaged: A Violated Trust
It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.
— Tara Sivec, Watch over Me