Hurt Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Suicide, Blood, Etching

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• if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

  Goldie Hawn

  Pain, Compassion, Medicine

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.50, Penguin

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• Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kind

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

  Nalini Singh

  Bed, Might, Red

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.120, Penguin

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• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Believe, Simple, Names

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Mind, Scar

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• When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Apples, Tree

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• You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Blow, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Girl, Thinking, Wish

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• Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Heart, Circles

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• Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Strong, Mistake

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Dark, Thinking

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• Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

  Elizabeth Haydon

  Important, May, Wells

  Elizabeth Haydon (2010). “Requiem for the Sun: A New Adventure in the Symphony of Ages”, p.373, Macmillan

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• Itʹs not just the dress or the hair. Itʹs you. Youʹre beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Hair, Dresses

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