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• We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

  Jennifer Egan

  Party, People, Tree

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.

  Marc Acito

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Pain, Fire, Blood

  Jennifer Crusie (2003). “What the Lady Wants”

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• old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Believe, Bitterness, Grudge

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Dark Secrets: No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Adults, Sometimes

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

  Shannon Hale

  Firsts, Just Being, Alive

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.151, A&C Black

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• She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Inspiration, Soul, Done

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• Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses

  Jason Mraz

  Beautiful, Crazy, Writing

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• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sad, Depression, Healthy

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• And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Uncertain, Understood, Has Beens

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• You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Giving, Wish, You Don't Know Me

  Lurlene McDaniel (1992). “A Time to Die”, Laurel Leaf

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• The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.632, Ballantine Books

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• I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Two, Voice

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.81, Penguin

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• oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Calling, Given, Oh Well

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• Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness?

  Miss Read

  Healing, Dark, Mind

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

  Ally Carter

  Someone You Love, Kind, Torture

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

  Deb Caletti

  Looks, Weapons

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

  Robert Asprin

  Kids, Thinking, Minutes

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• My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Nerves, Veins

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

  Mary Balogh

  Heart, Break Even, Long

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• And I know how he feels–it’s so good it hurts.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Feels, Know How, Knows

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Baby, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.78, Macmillan

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• If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me. I love you too, Kate. If you ever became hurt, I would not leave you. I’ll be there. Wherever you want‘there’ to be. -Curran to Kate

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Love You, Care

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.242, Penguin

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• It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sparrows, Rooms, Tiny

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Pain, Cutting, Thinking

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