“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
― A Fatal Grace
― A Fatal Grace
“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.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.”
― Beautiful Darkness
― Beautiful Darkness
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
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