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“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“It’s not okay,�� I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.�� “What do you want from me?�� Her voice is ragged, desperate. “I want you to let yourself be broken. Let yourself hurt.�� She shakes her head again. “I can’t. If I let it out, it’ll never stop.�� “Yes, it will.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much.”
― Donna Lynn Hope, Willow

“Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone.
You must hurt or be hurt.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?

Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.”
― Lord Mahāvīra

“The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover at Last

“This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

“You can’t hold it in forever,�� Colton said, apropos of nothing. “Yes, I can.�� I had to. “You’ll go crazy. It’ll come out, one way or another.�� “Better crazy than broken.�� I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. “You’re not broken. You’re hurting.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at the pier and the bicycle rider and the service station guys and the five thousand houses and the Big Nurse and all of it. Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know's there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt, but the two rarely meet. Let go�� Sometimes, forgiveness is simply a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most”
― Christopher J Marshall

“Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?”
― Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

“Some of the things he’s said over the past few days are starting to make sense, and I begin to feel more and more like the people I despise. He told me outright that he would answer anything if I just asked, yet I chose to believe the rumours about him instead. No wonder he was so irritated with me. I was treating him just like everyone else treats me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips
from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.”
― Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you get transformed �� flower, bull, you name it, the gods can be that petty �� or you just get…crushed.”
― Marian Tee, Drawn: His Secret Toy

“I did answer. I said a little. I'm afraid of what you can do. I mean, I feel safe with you, though. I know you’d never hurt me.�� I take her face in my hands. It’s too familiar, too affectionate, too soon. I can’t help it, though. “Just the opposite. I will protect you. From others and from yourself. Always.�� “Why?�� Barely audible. “Because I want to. Because…�� I struggle to find the right words. “Because you deserve it, and you need it.�� “No, I don’t.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“When you love someone deeply, you cannot stop it, because how much you try that much it hurts”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“Don’t blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way.”
― Hermann Hesse

“marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It’s a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.”She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn’t recognize him.

He didn’t like it. Not at all.”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married

“When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.”
― Alyssa Tillmon

“Walker and Timothy sat quietly for a very long time. “Why do so many people make it so hard for anyone to help them or to love them?�� Walker asked finally.
Timothy chuckled. “Ah, Walker—if I could explain all of humanity’s foibles, I’d be a rich man indeed, at least as far as money goes. I believe people are like that because of fear. They fear being loved because they fear that if they’re loved, they’ll have to love back. And if they love back, they may get hurt. And many people aren’t ready to put their hearts on the line like that. Mostly because they don’t have anything to fall back on. It’s quite a shame, really, because they hurt themselves by trying to avoid getting hurt. But we have to be willing to die many times if we’re ever going to get on with this business of living.”
― Tom Walsh

“Because—truth?—on the scale of significance, that stuff doesn’t even register.

What has me pushed past the boiling point...what has me really, really upset is learning the woman I thought was so incredibly strong I married her on the spot...is actually
a quitter who runs from challenge,
a coward too afraid to even try,
a liar who makes promises she won’t keep and
a cynic too bitter to believe what’s right in front of her face. Is that real enough for you?”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married

“Upturned face.
Parted lips.
The good-night kiss he couldn’t leave without.

Only, Megan’s lips were stiff and unyielding. She didn’t pull away. It might almost have been better if she had. Instead, she’d allowed the kiss to occur, taking it with the same cool detachment offered in her words.”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married