Hurt Quotes - Page 8

• I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.

  Susan Mallery

  Regret, Want, Not Afraid

  Susan Mallery (2011). “Only Mine”, p.162, Harlequin

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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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• There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

  Gordon Korman

  Powerful, Needs, Amy

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Running, Night, Ideas

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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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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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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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• The fact is, if you have a solid healthcare plan, you still don't have dental. If you have dental, you might not have vision. And if your back hurts, well, a chiropractor's not covered in that. It's a hassle. You have to go seek out on your own and look for the best plan you can afford, and a lot of times what people can afford is not what they need, and it creates lot of leeway for people to slip through the cracks.

  Mr. Lif

  People, Vision, Healthcare

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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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• THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Years, Keys, Long

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

  Peter Watts

  Speech, Scream, Communicate

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.261, Macmillan

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• It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

  Donald Trump

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

  Holly Black

  Voice, Break

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

  Danielle Steel

  Moving, Past, Faces

  Danielle Steel (2009). “Southern Lights”, p.219, Random House

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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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• I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Sorry, Stills, I'm Sorry

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Eye, Animal, Use

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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 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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