"I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle."
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"Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it."
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"...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever."
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"She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt."
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"Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free."
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"Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’"
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"Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason."
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