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“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”
“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”
“I thought you were gone forever, I thought youd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didnt.”
“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”
“I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.”
“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And Im tired of drowning.”
“The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.”
“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”
“I made such a fool of myself, she lamented.Love does not make you a fool.He didnt love me back.That does not make you a fool, either.Just tell me Her voice cracked. When does it stop hurting?Somet...”
“The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didntwork out the first time.”
“One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.”
“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is ...”
“As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.”
“The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
“It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.”
“If you never love you never hurtIf you never hurt you've never lived.Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.”
“The worst is behind you. Lock it up in a deep dungeon and throw away the key. You could live through what you felt were your worst moments. Now hold your head high, wear that smile you had forgotte...”
