“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But from the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”— Rafiki, amazon.com
“He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out wh…”— Caitlin Moran, amazon.com
“I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.”— Albert Borris, amazon.com
“To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me; I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com
“Loving for the second time isn’t sweet; it’s bitter, and hurt more than the first.”— Jessica E. Larsen, amazon.com
“I can feel you through your lonely eyes, and I hope one day you'll understand how everything that hurt us was everything that made us who we are.”— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that onl…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”— Erma Bombeck, amazon.com
“It’s hard staying sober when you ain’t staying over It’s easy getting messed up on the truth It’s hard standing here watching taillights disappear It’s hard staying sober when I’m getting over you”— Miranda Lambert
“I remember vividly what that vision did to me You laying with her in our bed Love can be a tradgedy When you do what you did to me All I'm seeing now is red”— Miranda Lambert
“I feel like this long string of lights. They lit up our whole house on christmas day. But now it's January and the bulbs have all burned out, But still they hang. Like dead flowers.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“There's a dark cloud hanging over my heart I can't see where it ends, or where it starts. I should get over you, but baby, it's so hard, with this dark cloud hanging over my heart.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com