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"They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone"
"Unfortunately, I can’t run from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body. And I know I’ll never be the same."
"Truth never hurt the teller."
"Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely."
"The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length"
"The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are."
"If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead."
"Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody"
"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."
"Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt."
"She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time."
"I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog."
"So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then."
"It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found."
"It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it."
"So, I can hurt now, or hurt later."
"The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet understand that it will all go away."
"A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good."
"I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now."
"Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that."
