Hurt Quotes - Page 15

• It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

  Christopher Paolini

  Accomplishment, Inheritance, Want

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

  Stephen King

  Halloween, Ghost

  "Bag of Bones". Book by Stephen King, September 22, 1998.

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• I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Kind, It Hurts, Glad

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• What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Darkness, Bless

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• Maybe . . . because for the first time . . . there was a chance I could keep him,” I say. “So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?” “Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.” And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, People, Rooms

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• He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

  Conn Iggulden

  Dog, Hate, Broken

  Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.149, HarperCollins UK

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• The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.

  Kami Garcia

  Past, Two, Church

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• It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

  Harlan Coben

  Enemy, Lessons, Earth

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Real, Blood

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.

  Kerstin Gier

  Wall, Talking, Feelings

  Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.277, Macmillan

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• Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Moving, Shifting, Painful

  Suzanne Brockmann (2008). “Into the Fire: A Novel”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

  Toni Morrison

  Baby, Funny Things, Games

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy! That was Medusa's curse alone. she was the most hideous one in the family. She got all the luck!" Stheno looked hurt. "Mother said I was the most hideous.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Sorry, Hero

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• Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

  Stephen King

  Men, Littles, Said

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

  Charlaine Harris

  Bags, Want, Bones

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

  Bisco Hatori

  Distance, Keys, People

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Names, Noble

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

  Nicole Richie

  Long, People, Golden

  Nicole Richie (2010). “Priceless: A Novel”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

  Anne Frank

  Feelings, Deeds, Pay

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• If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

  Jean M. Auel

  Falling In Love, Love You, Risk

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Valley of Horses (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Two”, p.342, Bantam

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• Tyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt!" "You thank the gods that she is hurt?" he asked, puzzled.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Tyson, Puzzled

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• She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

  Elizabeth George

  Heart, Animal, Simple

  Elizabeth George (2007). “A Suitable Vengeance”, p.446, Bantam

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• And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Kids, Opportunity

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

  Abbi Glines

  Strong, Kissing, Reaching Up

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• I did, however, manage to do it without hurting those dogs. Very considerate of me. Don't let it be said I'm not an animal lover-that wretched kitsune aside.

  Richelle Mead

  Dog, Animal, Lovers

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1326, Zebra Books

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