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“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“life is so damned hard . . . it 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, The Beautiful and Damned
“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.” Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
“The chief thing I shouldn't like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Words are wind . . . They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“He who acts, harms; he who grabs, lets slip.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself.” Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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