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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

  Maya Banks

  Men, Ideas, Way

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• But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Cry

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

  Mitch Albom

  Voice, Doe, Fool

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• To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you

  J.A. Redmerski

  Mean, Disappoint, Thousand

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• I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Glasses, Differences, Mad

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

  Darynda Jones

  Guy, Heaven, Insane

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.299, St. Martin's Press

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• I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

  Abraham Verghese

  Dream, Feelings, Togetherness

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• All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Breathing Space, Wanted, Breathing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.999, 谷月社

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• Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Leadership, Mean, Healing

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Feet, Mountain

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• And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

  Christine Feehan

  Giving, Vulnerable, Allowing

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• The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Perfect, Soul, Doe

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1991). “Hot Shot”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Men, Brotherhood

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• I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Littles, Pockets, Stones

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