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Quotes About Hurt

You let your guard down to one person, pretty soon other people started creeping in over the razor wire and around the force fields, too. And then they inevitably hurt you, and what might have been a few chips and dents of your deflectors were working turned, instead into a full-sledged meteor storm, leaving behind cracked bones and big meaty gauges.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Her voice sounded hurt. The emotion might even be real. People are complicated.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She hadn't really done anything to me physically. This was just what a broken heart felt like.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien," the Englishman purred, hurt or feigning. "What would I have done? He wears your ring, my love." "I don't trust you." David's nails scratched Sebastien's neck, tracing the spine from skull to shoulders. Sebastien shivered. "Don't trust me," David answered. "I need your goodwill. Use me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It stung that his words didn't mean more to me than they did.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The expectation of an injury can hurt as much as the injury itself.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's hard to punch a free-floating shipvoice, though, and whaling a bulkhead would look silly, send me spinning across the cabin, and hurt me more than it hurt Singer.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She wanted to save Rien from any hurt, but there were some hurts you could rescue no one from.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone. I haven't wanted to hurt you; I haven't wanted to touch you in any way. When I try and show you the truth I fill you with such despair. Life is so much more impossible than you think.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
People are vicious. They will turn on you.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Cuanto más amas, más te lastima. Lo que es peor, lo lastimas a él así como a ti misma.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
He's failed her as much as she's betrayed him. Nothing more needs to be known or said.
~ Elizabeth Crane
I found out myself long ago that there's no one whom one dislikes so much as the person in whom one's confided too much.
~ Elizabeth Ferrars
The worst things were cowardly acts of betrayal. Betraying a friend and in the process betraying yourself. He knew all about that.
~ Elizabeth Hay
I looked up and met the saddest eyes I've ever seen. His eyes were like a hole that I fell into. I could see every emotion passing through his mind. I could see hope, yet the emotion that stood out the most, hurt led me to his his heart, his poor broken heart...
~ Elizabeth Heller
I see the new couple holding hands, smiling so carelessly at each other. I want to scream "Stop!" to them. I want to warn them what happens when you fall in love. You get hurt. It will take a while, A few months, or if you're really lucky a year. But love, it falters. It fails just like everything else, it inevitably breaks.
~ Elizabeth Heller
I knew I love him then. It was the first time I cried out of hurt and the thought that he might never fully understand me.
~ Elizabeth Heller
That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
When you love, it will hurt. You have to choose to forgive, again and again. But it's worth it. That's the crux of human relationships, Dobbs. The sweetest thing. Loving deeply. And forgiving.
~ Elizabeth Musser
I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.
~ Elizabeth Scott
And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Do I understand that hurt my children feel? I think I do, though they might claim otherwise. But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can't even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: this is mine, this is mine, this is mine.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Grown men with hurt feelings are transparent creatures; grown men who feel dimly they have done something wrong are positively opaque.
~ Elizabeth Strout