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. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.
Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? 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...
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Haruki Murakami
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
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Becca Fitzpatrick
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
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Jonathan Tropper
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.
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Alexandra Adornetto
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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Holly Black
More Quotes By Holly Black
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
