“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”— Emma Forrest, amazon.com
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”— Harry Crews, amazon.com
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved?”— Tali Alexander, amazon.com
“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”— Carrie Fisher, amazon.com
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Don’t tell me it’s going to be ok Let me be in this moment where I think it’s not Lie beside me and let me find hope in the comfort of your presence Let me deal with my thoughts and fears I will eventually reprimand myself for indulging in such an emotion for so long I will want to get up and keep m…”— Samantha King, amazon.com