Quotes About Hurt

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.

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.

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.

And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

I have said that he has the power to deliver a compliment and make it hurt. So, too, he can say something that ought to be insulting and deliver it in such a way that it feels like being truly seen.

Mortals are fragile," I say. "Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break." Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he's saying all too well. That boy is your weakness.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.

He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse

Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.

because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.

Secrets hurt the keeper more than you think.

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.

Protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

You ought to be on my side,' he says, looking hurt. 'I was poisoned.' 'That's another good reason for me to go in your place,' Tiernan puts in. 'Pragmatist,' says Oak, as though it's a dirty word.

We don't need her!' Oak shouts, the first time I have really seen his emotions out of his control. 'And I don't want her.' The words hurt, the more because he cannot lie.

He touches my cheek lightly with his fingers. 'You- I thought-' I stare up into his eyes, puzzled by his expression. 'Are you hurt?' he asks. I shake my head. The prince turns away from me abruptly.

It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house. If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me. He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.

You broke the Madden brothers. I remember them, Joesph, and I remember what you did to them.