Hurt Quotes - Page 24

• Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

  Alyson Noel

  Worst Enemy, Secret, Knows

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• I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

  Kristin Hannah

  People, Forgiving, Knows

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.

  Kristin Hannah

  Men, Years, Together

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.1152, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Breathing, Ifs, I Can

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.

  Veronica Roth

  Laughter, Laughing So Hard, Life Is Like

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.

  Ned Vizzini

  Feelings, Found, Knows

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• It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

  Susan Sontag

  Knowing, Giving, Skins

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.264, Macmillan

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• I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pieces, Way, Knows

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.353, Penguin

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• You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

  Megan McCafferty

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• She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

  Junot Diaz

  Water, Paper, Way

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Enemy, Cry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.224, Macmillan

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• I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.

  Madeline Miller

  Air, Worry, Skins

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Get Better, Ifs

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.

  Megan Hart

  Falling In Love, Rocks, Sound

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• Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did.

  Rick Riordan

  Dancing, Annabeth, Ears

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Bird, Get Better, One Day

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

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• I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Watches, Alex, Easier

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.224, Penguin

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• It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Ribs, Bleeding

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.315, Penguin

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• Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

  John Green

  Pain, Attention, Wake Up

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me.

  Sylvia Day

  Heart, Night, Hands

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• Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

  John Green

  Knows, Versions

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.185, Penguin

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• And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

  John Green

  Breakup, Want, Ridiculous

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.44, Penguin

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• You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Voice, Ashes, Lows

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.349, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't know" means "NO!" "I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation." "I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

  Greg Behrendt

  Dirty, Mean, Feelings

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.38, Harmony

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• I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.

  Pittacus Lore

  Bully

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “The Rise of Nine: Lorien Legacies”, p.195, Penguin UK

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