When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and hurt each other, isn't that the truth, and they do these things in more or less conventionally...

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers....

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you...

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She...

I don't sing like this often. It makes my throat hurt.

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot...

You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I'm the one with the killer touch.

The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

I hope Rosaura's mouth turns crackling! And that I would never have let those disgusting, smelly, incoherent, pestilent, indecent and repellent words escape. It was better that he had swallowed them...