Quotes About Hurt

There've been times I've been mad enough to kill, and may have, had I known I would get away with it.' 'What made you that angry?' Clara was astonished. 'Betrayal, always and only betrayal.

the line from Ruth's poem. Who hurt you once, so far beyond repair?

my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness. You're

Be careful," Gamache whispered. "You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

Did you ever suspect us?' Gamache looked at the two men, one huge and buoyant, the other slim and self-contained. 'No. I think you've both been hurt too much in your lives by the cruelty of others to ever be cruel yourselves. In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness. You're not the types to do murder. I wish I could say the same for everyone here.

that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

they will empty your eyes of everything you love

the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings

I love you...But I made you cry.

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

She lashed out because when you hurt someone else, you're less likely to feel your own pain.

I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply.

The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in her eyes - like she had been violated in some way that broke her own image.

in order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.

When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them?

Words, he knew, could scar.

Betrayal was a stone beneath the mattress of the bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

He presses himself so close to me that any hurt left on the surface between us spreads thin, becomes a binding instead of a boundary

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It

I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. •

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.