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dabd8ec You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching dance heaven life love inspirational hurt sing William W. Purkey
760ef5a "I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it." pain harry-potter death life dumbledore hurt J.K. Rowling
c89e75e You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. pain harry-potter hurt J.K. Rowling
b6bc790 To hurt is as human as to breathe. hurt J.K. Rowling
01184ff Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. wisdom-in-life pain freedom learning beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life-lessons life wisdom inspirational living-life heal growing flying healing painful flight wisdom-quotes growth hurt wind experience wings hurting C. JoyBell C.
0517f8b Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. existence risk fear love hurt Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
289dc7a To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
69a3337 I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. pain trust hurt Veronica Roth
c087b9d "Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around." "Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?" loneliness lies conform wandering antisocial social peer-pressure hurt society bullying school Ray Bradbury
4123e8a When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. relationships life inspirational grudges sorry hurt Steve Maraboli
d2c421d So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. independence hurt uniqueness Haruki Murakami
46645b5 You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. happy heartbreak love hurt self Melissa de la Cruz
d485cb9 Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? pain human god love hurt Jacqueline Carey
bd604e0 "Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time." woman life love hurt Mario Puzo
8c09d2c Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
99acba9 Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. life-lessons wisdom wounds hurt scars Wallace Stegner
2dc802d You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory. challenged denied discouraged history destiny motivational inspirational beaten defeated betrayed victim hurt Steve Maraboli
9a62d8a Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March) meanness mean hurt Louisa May Alcott
2168e70 Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows. knives hurt mother Joanne Harris
b469945 I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. good-intentions self-centered looking-back wound hurt evil Haruki Murakami
d8040a7 Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story hearbroken rain love inspirational hurt waiting Hilary Duff
e26befa Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. hurt Nick Hornby
8887a82 It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. good music love inspirational power-of-music hurt Nina LaCour
9878526 "You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting." I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes. "No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die." "I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in that matter," replies Jeanine lightly. Tobias takes my face in this hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end." love hurt Veronica Roth
e2a60b7 "Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." suffering jesus god cross crucifixtion hurt Rob Bell
82ffbae why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs. love hurt Marian Keyes
3d2b8ca There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me. heart-ache untold-things hurt Jonathan Safran Foer
2caeb25 The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. pain loss risk love saftey security practice force hurt Bell Hooks
f7c6244 It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
40b77d3 That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain. hurt Amy Tan
8792d4f "Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ... We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. ... What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers." dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying John Green
b90aee9 "I think it's obvious if you're wanted here or not." "Daemon," hissed Dee, her cheeks red. She turned to me, tears in her eyes. "He's not being serious." "Are you being serious, Daemon?" Ash turned in his lap, head cocked to the side. My heart was already pounding in my chest when his eyes met mine. His were sheltered. "Actually I was being serious." He leaned over the table, staring up at me through thick lashes. "You're not wanted here." Dee spoke again, but I was beyond hearing. My face felt like it was on fire. People around us were starting to stare. One of the Thompson boys was smirking while the other looked as though he wanted to crawl underneath the table for me. The rest of the kids at the table were staring at their plates. One of them snickered. I'd never been more humiliated in my life." dee daemon humiliated katy embarrassed mean hurt Jennifer L. Armentrout
1476e94 The dead do not hurt you; only the living do. living death life the-sinner tess-gerritsen hurt Tess Gerritsen
adc5790 She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her. love leave hurt Christine Feehan
15a5aa8 Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. worth pain love heartache hurt memory Jeanette Winterson
c890643 Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. accidents moïra-fowley-doyle staying-alive the-accident-season young-adult inspiration fantasy heartbreak life love truth inspirational life-goes-on hurt unique Moïra Fowley-Doyle
e3fed42 I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry heartbreak love second-best hurt Melissa de la Cruz
29cfc29 He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did. heartbreak love hurt Melissa de la Cruz
bbd9de0 I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost. words literature reading healing hurt language Jeanette Winterson
98eca82 Being in love with your best friend is problematic. fate pain friends life-quotes davin i-m-in-love love-issues love-problems best-friend-love best-friend-quotes friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend mazing-quotes awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend longing J.M. Richards
2d5a20c She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. life inspirational hurt soul Laurie Halse Anderson
f5ff219 Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told -- told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything. truth hurt lie forgetfulness Neil Gaiman
b4931eb "I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase. Actions did mean more than words." love payne vishous hurt siblings J.R. Ward
d763869 Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt. stephen-king getting-what-you-want hurt Stephen King
c520c5c Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would've discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn't have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens. pain frienship hurt piper-mclean Rick Riordan
32be300 When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt. pain women hurt voice Terry Tempest Williams
4aaced0 As much as I cared about him, I wasn't a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend. fate pain friends life-quotes best-friend-love best-friend-quotes friends-to-lovers friendship-and-love ignoring-issues in-love-with-best-friend in-love-with-my-friend mazing-quotes arguments awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend longing J.M. Richards
59a2de5 I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for. pain love lost-love hurt Libba Bray
8d5c697 It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating. hurt euphemism John Green
fa327b0 All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt. hurt space emotions tears Margaret Mitchell
014d9c9 "I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite education writers-on-writing hurt Kurt Vonnegut
4c80f56 I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance. fixing-things god-can-repair-you saving-things defeated damaged hurt second-chances Melody Carlson
2ceb452 The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable. pain hurt panic Robert Ludlum
1c27673 It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... grief upset hurt Stephenie Meyer
41154f1 I didn't say anything; I could find no words that would express the swirled chaos of emotions inside me. So I just watched him go right out the door. broken-hearted-quotes amazing-writing anna j-m-richards tall-dark-streak-of-lightning broken-heart left-alone hurt emotions lonely J.M. Richards
f5ae23f The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul Robin Hobb
3a2c75e The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged. moving-on past hurt remember Jennifer L. Armentrout
0737876 "It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause, we come here to get away from such things. As long as we are here, we can get by without hurting others or being hurt by them because we know that we are "deformed". That's what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition. Just as Indians wear feathers on their heads to show what tribe they belong to, we wear our deformities in the open. And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another." people truth outside-world precondition hurt lives flaws Haruki Murakami
38f716a A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? irony hurt Joyce Carol Oates
a769ec9 It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me hatred madness sadness hurt teenager Lynda Barry
34ee79a This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. pain loss suffering leprosy hurt Stephen R. Donaldson
aaa544e I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. hurt guilt oppression Audre Lorde
85db6de Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games. quote little-girls petals-on-the-wind v-c-andrews grown-up hurt V.C. Andrews
34167bf Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to pain good goodness people-will-hurt-you hurt cry description innocence vulnerable sad Ray Bradbury
38d5795 You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I'm the one with the killer touch. killer-touch hurt worry Jennifer L. Armentrout
1aad74d Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup. lucy-snowe villette goodbyes hurt Charlotte Brontë
5ab42bf "Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. lovely madness lovers new-day gratitude drinking joy inspiration sadness music songs happiness hope be-okay fine panic-attacks park starving panic-attack chest sound ed okay self-destruction wellness grateful hopeful anxiety alcohol coffee spring well-being art singing hurt balance sky flowers crying focus panic sing tears walking hopeless recovery sad self-harm smoking mental-health Charlotte Eriksson
b51a7dd While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know's there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. laughter pain laughing hurt Ken Kesey
07bf556 I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck. pain love hurt self-mutilation Christopher Moore
f3b82bd Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most. love hurt Pat Conroy
d51f183 And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the resumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst. hurt soul D.H. Lawrence
962ad12 "Meg's eyes were too bright. "I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt." hurt Madeleine L'Engle
ec23516 "He sighed and grabbed my left arm, examining the tattoo. "What were you thinking? Didn't you know I'd come as soon as I could?" I yanked my arm from him. "I was dying! I had a fever--I was barely able to keep conscious! How was I supposed to know you'd come? That you even understood how quickly humans can die of that sort of thing? You told me you hesitated that time with the naga." "I swore an oath to Tamlin--" "I had no other choice! You think I'm going to trust you after everything you said to me at the manor?" "I risked my neck for you during your task. Was that not enough?" His metal eye whirred softly. "You offered up your name for me--after all that I said to you, all I did, you still offered up your name. Didn't you realize I would help you after that? Oath or no oath?" I hadn't realized it would mean anything to him at all. "I had no other choice," I said again, breathing hard. "Don't you understand what Rhys is?" "I do!" I barked, then sighed. "I do," I repeated, and glared at the eye in my palm. "It's done with. So you needn't hold to whatever oath you swore to Tamlin to protect me--or feel like you owe me anything for saving you from Amarantha. I would have done it just to wipe the smirk off your brothers' faces." Lucien clicked his tongue, but his remaining russet eye shone. "I'm glad to see you didn't sell your lively human spirit or stubbornness to Rhys." risk rhysand feyre tamlin lucien hurt help oath name Sarah J. Maas
03df3d1 "I suppose that means you don't want any band-aids, either," I said, a touch more bitterly than I'd meant to." friends life-quotes anna arguments awesome-quotes bandaids first-aid friend-quotes friendship-true-and-loyal frienship j-m-richards real-friends real-friendship silly-fights stupid-arguments tall-dark-streak-of-lightning tdsol quotes-about-life friendship-quotes so-true best-friends bitterness hurt friend J.M. Richards
dcfe828 I laugh and it's the same bitter laugh I remember him giving when we met so many weeks ago. Isaiah says it so simply that my heart soars and sinks at the same time. I whisper. Isaiah shakes his head and stares out the window. I ask. Because I don't know how the two of us can continue forward. Isaiah refuses to let me in. It's sort of cruel. He's brought me close with his stories of his childhood and with his words of love, but he can't relinquish control. I refuse to be with someone who won't treat me as an equal. love let-in rachel-young isaiah happen control hurt refuse help Katie McGarry
0ac4c95 It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches. love hurt Jodi Picoult
0bbfd67 Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. pain hurt L.M. Montgomery
91a162c "Say that you don't love him!" Amarantha shrieked, and the blood on my hands became the blood of that rabbit--became the blood of what I had lost. But I wouldn't say it. Because loving Tamlin was the only thing I had left, the only thing I couldn't sacrifice. A path cleared through my red-and-black vision. I found Tamlin's eyes--wide as he crawled toward Amarantha, watching me die, and unable to save me while his wound slowly healed, while she still gripped his power. Amarantha had never intended for me to live, never intended to let him go. "Amarantha, stop this," Tamlin begged at her feet as he clutched the gaping wound in his chest. "Stop. I'm sorry--I'm sorry for what I said about Clythia all those years ago. Please." killing love feyre tamlin emotional beg hurt angry blood Sarah J. Maas
49b06bd ... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or dirty to her or hurt her, ever. I vowed it and had all the confidence in the world that I would keep the vow. world treat-her-right vow hurt Markus Zusak
640c8f8 I said. I pushed my left one up, showing four bruises, dark as ink spots. Simon paled. He rubbed his mouth, still staring at my arm. Simon's eyes widened, then he lowered his lids to hide his surprise. Derek's voice preceded him around the corner. I shrank back. I couldn't help it. As I did, a look passed through Derek's eyes. Remorse? Guilt? He blinked it away. didn-t-mean-to derek simon hurt mistake trouble guilt Kelley Armstrong
e18714c The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt. time pain measure passage realization realize hurt fitz knowledge hit fool Robin Hobb
481860f When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope. time pain fear hope avoidance burn deny enemy ignore look-away hurt break fall crash weight disappointment Robin Hobb
d6460dd I don't sing like this often. It makes my throat hurt. sorrow hurt sing Margaret Atwood
e5db13b If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind. words life hurt Arthur Golden
9e61582 "Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "Yeah, but not to hurt. To help." truth hurt Laurie Halse Anderson
cb9600e It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more. sympathy problems hurt Spider Robinson
89005ea "Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings. Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country." -- jealousy revenge love rivalry hurt resentment lust father Henri J.M. Nouwen
3d952e4 people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and hurt each other, isn't that the truth, and they do these things in more or less conventionally dramatic fashion, unfashionable or not, go on, I'm going, and what goes on between them is still not only the most interesting but the most important thing in the bloody murderous world love truth hurt John Barth
b7dc5e9 Once bitten, twice shy; twice bitten, forever shy. once-bitten-twice-shy wounded the-only-story julian-barnes hurt Julian Barnes
0941933 Escapaba a su comprension el que un ser, independiente del parentesco que pudiera tener con otro, asi no mas, con la mano en la cintura rechazara de una manera tan brutal una atencion. love attention hurt rejection Laura Esquivel
6223ee6 "Pentru ca sunt de parere ca o criza de infidelitate poate avea rezultate pozitive, am fost adeseori intrebata: "Deci, in cazul unui cuplu care are probleme, ii recomandati o relatie extraconjugala?" Raspunsul meu? In cazul bolilor terminale, multi oameni au experiente pozitive, care le schimba viata. Dar nu recomand o relatie extraconjugala, tot asa cum nu "recomand" sa ai cancer. ... Cand un cuplu vine la mine dupa ce membrii sai s-au confruntat cu un adulter, le spun adeseori urmatorul lucru: "Prima voastra casnicie s-a terminat. N-ati vrea sa intemeiati o a doua impreuna?" love hurt infidelity Esther Perel
7c63227 There were times in meeting I was called a baby sitter, a social worker by my colleagues. Now that we have a different leader, he looks at it the way I look at it, and he supported me in what I was doing. There were times he saw me crying, and he would comfort me and say that's okay. Commissioner Paul Farquharson was one of my biggest supporters. It used to hurt me, because I was trying to help somebody and they say I was babysitting. Don't tell me I am babysitting, now that I have retired now I am babysitting. So not because I was trying to reach out and work with those children, don't say I was babysitting them. I work the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for 22 years and I was rough in CID. I realize CID was the end result, because whenever you get to that stage you are almost finished. It is in line with the broken window theory, if you can save those youngsters before they start committing those big offenses, then they wouldn't reach CID. Crime prevention was a part of my job, I believe in going out there and trying to prevent that youngster from committing crime. He should respect other people's property. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force. baby-sitting big-offenses biggest-supporters broken-window-theory caring-police-officers colleagues commissioner-of-police crime-detection criminal-investigation end-result good-police-officers help-somebody my-job other-people-s-property police-community reach-someone social-worker working-with-children caring-cops good-cops helping-people police-intervention police-outreach police-superintendent at-risk-communities at-risk-youth crime-prevention gang-intervention gang-members rebellion-raiders community-policing law-enforcement finish hurt crying Drexel Deal
f63c83c !Ojala que a Rosaura la boca se le hiciera chicharron! Y que nunca hubiera dejado escapar esas repugnantes, malolientes, incoherentes, pestilentes, indecentes y repelentes palabras. Mas valia que se las hubiera tragado y guardado en el fondo de sus entranas hasta que se le pudrieran y agusanaran. Y ojala que ella viviera lo suficiente como para impedir que su hermana llevara a cabo tan nefastas intenciones. words palabras shit hurt Laura Esquivel
53fd5d2 When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point. pain prayer honesty god confess confession hurt honest Randy Alcorn
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