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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Smart, Mean, Eye

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• Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Meditation, Narcissistic, Way

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.61, Random House

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• I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

  Abbi Glines

  Special, Cold, Feels

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Pain, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

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• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Tired

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Opportunity, People, Brave

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.332, Scholastic UK

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jobs, Heart, Humble

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• Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

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• My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? 

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Heart, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

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• Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Said

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

  Guillaume Musso

  Giving, Guy, Faults

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• Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

  Guillaume Musso

  Real, World, Persons

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• To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Wonder, Left Behind, Behinds

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• Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

  Roger Zelazny

  Facts, Reconcile, Ifs

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• Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

  Neal Shusterman

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Love, I've Learned, Feels

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• It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

  John Irving

  Deceiving, Deceived, Been Hurt

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• Because everything worth having hurts.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

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• Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!

  James Patterson

  Wall, Angel, Despair

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.198, Random House

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• Ella, just stay here. Stay safe." "Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson." "What?" Percy said. "Oh... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary—" "ROOOF." "How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

  Rick Riordan

  Numbers, Safety, Likes

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• I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Safe, Remember, You Again

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.702, Dell

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• George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: “Yes, this will do”. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving… me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha… Sad, sad, sad.

  Edward Albee

  Mistake, Dark, Games

  "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.

  Lauren Kate

  Pride, Thrones, Our Love

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• There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

  C.C. Hunter

  Heart, Boys, Risk

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• Do you really like studying?" Mattia nodded. "Why?" "It's the only thing I know how to do," he said shortly. He wanted to tell her that he liked studying because you can do it alone, because all the things you study are already dead, cold, and chewed over. He wanted to tell her that the pages of the schoolbooks were all the same temperature, that they left you time to choose, that they never hurt you and you couldn't hurt them either. But he said nothing.

  Paolo Giordano

  Pages, Temperature, Study

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