Sarah Dessen Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Faith, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

• Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Answers, Sometimes

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.53, Penguin

• You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, First Love, Boys

  "That Summer". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1996.

• You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, First Love, Once In A Lifetime

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

• "So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Lying, Liars

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

• Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

  Sarah Dessen

  Friendship, Hurt, Honest

• Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

  Sarah Dessen

  Break Up, Breakup, Hurt

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.167, Hachette UK

• She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Games, Next

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.320, Penguin

• I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Taken, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.218, Penguin

• Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Lying, Sometimes

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.110, Penguin

• If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Riding, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.228, Penguin

• "Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Jason, Would Be

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

• Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Knowing, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.60, Penguin

• I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Home, Opening Up

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin

• Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Eye, Found

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.332, Penguin

• We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Long, Limits

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

• Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Life Sucks, Tipping

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.87, Penguin

• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, People, Kind

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.237, Penguin UK

• He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Boys, Fifteen

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

• 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

  Hurt, Eyebrows, Scar

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.181, Penguin

• It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Believe, Eye

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