Hurt Quotes - Page 17

• If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Behavior, Humans, Ifs

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

  John Green

  Parent, Suffering, Might

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.116, Penguin

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• I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, I Like You, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.143, Counterpoint Press

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• Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

  Stephen King

  Sometimes, Things To Do, Ifs

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.

  Andrea Gibson

  Bangs, Sun, Bigs

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• I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.

  Rick Riordan

  Missing, Get Better, Stills

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• I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Two

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• There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Someone You Love, Way, Violence

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.246, Penguin

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• In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Taken, Heart, Garden

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• In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Wonder

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• They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt Me, Left

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Sorry, Track

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• My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

  Patricia Briggs

  Father, Stupid, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.35, Penguin

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• What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

  Ivo Andric

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• I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

  Candace Bushnell

  Forgiving, Theory, Ifs

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• Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

  David Mitchell

  Cheating, Pits, Waste

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.163, Vintage

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• Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward!

  Kiersten White

  Grateful, Eyebrows, Giving

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• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Heart, Two, People

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

  Deb Caletti

  Eye, Lovely, Valleys

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Querida, it's alright," he said. "No one has hurt me in years." "Hey, you're supposed to be my brother," I said, trying to joke. "Brother's don't hold their sisters' hands or call them querida." Seb smiled, his hazel eyes starting to dance. "Yes, they do," he said. "This happens all the time." "Well I guess things are different in Mexico then," I said. "Because in America, no way. And I'm an American." "But you're in Mexico now," he pointed out. "Right. And you're saying here, boys holds hands with their sisters and call them sweetheart." "Oh yes. We're very friendly, we Mexicans.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Brother, Eye, Boys

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• Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Sky, People

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.74, Random House

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• She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.

  Nalini Singh

  Long, Touching, Too Much

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.43, Penguin

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• Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

  Nalini Singh

  Opposites, Giving, Lines

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.34, Penguin

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• Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Hands, Suffering

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

  John Green

  Violence, Courses, Touched

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.63, Penguin

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