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“She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize it if they ever did.”

Book:Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not going to go away when you go on your mission. I'll still be here, and I'll still be thinking about all those things. I'll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I'll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren't gay.”

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Book:Autoboyography

Source: Autoboyography

“Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they'd been assigned by others or by ourselves. I'd felt damaged and ruined once, but I didn't anymore. I was still a work in progress, but I wasn't a victim. I was a survivor. - Gabriel”

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Book:Most of All You

Source: Most of All You

“and the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows. a”

Hurt Venomous

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.”

Inspirational Motivational

Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“When you're hurting, sometimes it hurts even more when someone can't give you what you need. At these times it's important to remember that a man can only have as much compassion for another as he has for himself. Everyone is doing the best they can.”

Hurt Grief Compassion Sadness Need

Author:Kate McGahan

“I realised that I needed the dark and the light to be a whole person. Trying to be happy by neglecting the harsh reality of my emotional world didn't work. All colours and shades of reality are experienced and by allowing these, without judgement, my heart opened to me. Self-love always starts with 'holding the hurt'.”

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Author:Kelly Martin

“Every hurt buried deep in the mind has an uncanny ability to surface and make its presence felt when I am feeling low, hugging me like a long lost friend”

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Author:Vijaya Gowrisankar

“... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every move I make, every breath I take, and every flutter of an eyelash. I've developed a twitch from always being on guard. I'm alert at night, and numb during the day, but I'm always ready. Maybe, I can intercept tragedy from striking again.”

Love Poetry Relationships Hurt Emotion Feeling

Book:Abandoned Breaths

Source: Abandoned Breaths

“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.”

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Book:Abandoned Breaths

Source: Abandoned Breaths

“In order to apologize—really apologize, and not just utter some words—for something one has done or failed to do, one has not only to acknowledge responsibility for but express sincere sorrow and regret over this action or inaction. One can apologize only for acts for which one has no excuse. If one has an excuse, there is nothing to apologize for, even if there is something to feel sorry about ('I'm sorry that you are hurt,' even 'I'm sorry that my actions hurt you,' is quite different from 'I'm sorry that I hurt you'). A genuine apology thus involves a rather raw exposure of the apologizer: Having done the deed, one now not only reiterates having done it, but strips away any suggestion that there are extenuating circumstances that could relieve one of blame; it must be clear that he regrets what he has done and feels sorrow over what he was wrought. He doesn't just wish things were otherwise; he fully acknowledges his role in bringing them to this sorry state.”

Relationships Hurt Blame Apologizing Apologies Repairing Relationships

Book:Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World

Source: Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World

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