“I don’t care what you do to me, but I don’t want you to hurt me. I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”— Kate Jacobs, amazon.com
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“You’re gonna be angry. You’re gonna be angry because you cared.”— Daren Colbert, darencolbert.tumblr.com
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”— Alan Keightley, goodreads.com
“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“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.”— Holly Black, amazon.com