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“When someone tells you that you have done something that has hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”
“Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.”
“Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.”
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.”
“Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.”
“You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m in love with you, Mara. I love you...”
“Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.”
“it’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way.”
“SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past”
“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.”
“I hear a small voicein the back of my mindand it is chanting a prayer:‘Please don’t fall in love again,please don’t fall in love again.’Maybe this time I will listen.Maybe this I will learn.”
“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, ...”
“Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom. It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt.Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.”
“...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.”
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.”
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”
“But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath.”
“Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not al...”
“As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.”
