Hurt Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Needs, Throat

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• That which hurts, also instructs.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• Michael, don’t,” Eve said. “He won’t hurt us.” Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Jason, Said

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

  Jim Butcher

  Growing Up, Moving, Odds

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.248, Penguin

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• Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.” “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mistake, Eye, Hands

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• Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

  Anita Shreve

  Thinking, Water, Stories

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• He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hands, Peaceful, Relax

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.47, Penguin

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blue, Play, Guilt

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

  Kami Garcia

  Heartbreak, Mad, Lovers

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• I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

  Gregory Maguire

  Responsibility, Past, Way

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• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

  Jamie Ford

  Missing Someone, Real, Distance

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.222, Allison & Busby

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• We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.176, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.

  Julie Garwood

  Falling In Love, Attitude, Love You

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• Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined, I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me. But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Boys, People

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

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• We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat up, all ears. "Bells!" "What?" Lend and I asked at the same time. "Get her a kitty collar with bells on it. That way you can hear her coming and get someplace where you won't be hurt by collapsing immediately into sleep.

  Kiersten White

  Mean, Sleep, Ears

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• When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

  George R. R. Martin

  Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1528, Bantam

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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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• 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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