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I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anx...

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things e...

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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi...

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A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognit...

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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

We can't pack down hurt, nor can we off-load it to someone else while maintaining our authenticity a...

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With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...

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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to ...

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.

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Carrie FisherPostcards from the Edge

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some orde...

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Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or sc...

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Charles BukowskiTales of Ordinary Madness

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, ...

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Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in...

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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt ...

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Chris AbaniThe Face: Cartography of the Void

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

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Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera: "Back to Basics"

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger ...

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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...

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All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...

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Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress...

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And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receive...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like...

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Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging ...

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Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't...

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In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

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Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and so...

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Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if...

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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait...

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Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will ...

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Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when...

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I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They wou...

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so ...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I ...

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Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a ...

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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

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Evelyn WaughA Handful of Dust

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to si...

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And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to l...

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...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poo...

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I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put,sometimes- baby,its never an insult o be called what s...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable tofind a place inside ou...

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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

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Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood

here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn...

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...

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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

They left like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bot...

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A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too l...

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Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ...

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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

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J. K. RowlingThe Tales of Beedle the Bard

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...

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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...

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I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: Y...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

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.