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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.

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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