“I felt like, 'This guy's really hurting me.' And it hurt.”— Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, Hansel McDonald, Owen Wilson, imdb.com
“Really knowing someone is something else. It’s a completely different thing and when it happens you won’t be able to miss it. You will be aware. And you won’t hurt or be afraid. Okay?”— Lena Dunham, Adam Sackler, Adam Driver, imdb.com
“Your little secrets, you little burdens, they're killing you---they're killing us.”— Ryan Scott, Agent Catherine 'Charlie' DeMarco, Vanessa Ferlito, imdb.com
“Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead.”— C.J. Redwine, amazon.com
“To feel is to hurt. To hurt is to care. To care is to share. To share is to grow. To grow is to love. And to love is to be human.”— Stephanie Anne, instagram.com
“Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com
“This heart of mine has only two settings: nothing at all or too much. There is no in between.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“I kept hearing that ‘better to have loved and lost’ bull[crap]. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don’t show me paradise and then burn it down.”— Harlan Coben, amazon.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“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.”— Holly Black, goodreads.com
“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“I don’t know how to not love people when they’re hurting. I guess that’s why I keep falling in love with open wounds and then not understanding when we are nothing but blood in a lifeboat.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break…”— Lev Grossman, amazon.com
“Hell is when people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can.”— Jess Rothenberg, amazon.com
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com