“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”— Hanif Kureishi, 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
“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”— Tom Gates, goodreads.com
“We all have our scars from loving someone too deeply. From wanting to protect someone too much.”— Mei Tachibana, amazon.com
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”— John Steinbeck, 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, goodreads.com
“I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“You’ve got to fall in love, fall out of love, no matter how much it hurts because my god, it’s worth it.”— Emily Palermo, goodreads.com
“Loving someone is giving them the power to hurt you, but trusting them not to.”— Quotemadness, quotemadness.com
“Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job at showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep inside us.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the centre of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.”— Abby McDonald, amazon.com