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“a desire which couldn’t nails like bullets ripping your skin making you feel this, that everything”

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“Ella, let me give you a piece of advice. You feel too much, and everything you feel is right there on that face of yours. It's in your voice. You've got to close that face of yours or people will keep hurting you. Put on a skin of toughness and hide yourself. You know, like a crab.”

Pain Hurt Armor Toughness Shield

Book:Wade in the Water

Source: Wade in the Water

“Didn't I tell you? They all turn. He done beat the very devil into here.”

Evil Hurt Anger Physical Abuse

Book:Wade in the Water

Source: Wade in the Water

“Because I’d known our relationship wasn’t healthy, yet I’d let him twist me up over and over just so I could feel gratitude on the days he decided to help me untangle the knots he’d tied. I was never enough for him. Never what he wanted. Always begging for scraps of attention, perpetually left empty.”

Hurt Bad Relationship Not Enough

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Imagining that hurt. Someone to love. To care for me openly. To be proud to parade me around. To touch and hold and pamper me. Someone who thought I was enough.”

Hurt Anxiety Longing

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I’d never had the opportunity to be the kind of boyfriend I’d always wanted to be—too afraid of being too much, too afraid of scaring whoever I was dating off with my “intensity.” Too afraid of being rejected when they realized what was beneath my polished exterior.”

Love Hurt Relationship

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“This man before me was someone else entirely. Not the suit-wearing, pen-wielding, dildo-carrying maniac from the line at security, but a person who had been beaten badly—so badly that when he’d finally gotten back up again, his feet didn’t understand whether or not they were on solid ground.”

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I thought it was my fault. That I wasn’t worth the effort? Or maybe it was just normal to feel lonely, even when you were with someone.”

Hurt Effort Loneliness Realtionship

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I stayed with him, Alex. Voluntarily. For a long time…I think I knew, deep down, it wasn’t right. But I stayed anyway. I stayed even though staying hurt. Because I hoped one day…I’d be…enough? That we’d be happy. That I could be what he wanted if I just folded myself small enough.”

Hurt Trauma Past Relationship

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“What did it say about me that my “practice boyfriend” was better at taking care of me than the man I’d thought would be my life partner? How had I never noticed? Scratch that—of course I had. I just…I suppose I hadn’t thought I deserved better. It was an awful sort of feeling, to come to terms with the fact that Brendon had been a horrible boyfriend when I’d put him on a pedestal for so long.”

Hurt Regret Trauma Past Relationship

Book:Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

Source: Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Some battles don’t have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire”

Inspirational Humour

Book:Tangled

Source: Tangled