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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Mayb...

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, ...

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Jodi PicoultPicture Perfect

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ...

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Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so th...

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Jodi PicoultSalem Falls

It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

Words, he knew, could scar.

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the on...

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people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and...

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John BarthLost in the Funhouse

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have...

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Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

All hurt is brain hurt.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem a...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of...

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What we don't know can't hurt us.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even mor...

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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let th...

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Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...

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A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...

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Joyce Carol OatesFaithless: Tales of Transgression

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and ho...

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While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laug...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from thi...

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Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

Because everything worth having hurts.

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance ...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...

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Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They ...

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Please just tell me where you are.His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fr...

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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at so...

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

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Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you ca...

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Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been h...

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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you ...

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A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back....

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Mitch AlbomThe Time Keeper

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

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All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...

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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love...

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but th...

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Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himsel...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then...

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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water,...

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i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt memore than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You'r...

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business to...

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Are you hurt?""Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...

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["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating ar...

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You don't need your eyes to love, Right?

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

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[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not huma...

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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we...

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I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the great...

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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they coul...

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How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constru...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in...

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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn any...

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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better...

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...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as...

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

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Stephen KingTwo Past Midnight: Secret Window

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back...

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It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest ...

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I miss him so badly it hurts.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

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Terry PratchettThe Light Fantastic

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart con...

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The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out...

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The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's...

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Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale abo...

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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my...

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He sh...

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I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And y...

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What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

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Veronica RothCarve the Mark

You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured ...

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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my b...

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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.