#hurt

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#healing #hurt #language #reading #words

It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#pain #alex

It's almost like you had it planned, it's like you smiled and shook my hand and said, 'Hey, I'm about to screw you over, big time ↗

— MoZella

#love

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#escape #hurt #leave #love #memories

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#love

To Sara's practised eye, this latest episode looked something like a broken heart, even if she'd never seen the look on him before. Or even imagined it happening. She wondered if he'd noticed yet. ↗

— Manna Francis

#love #toreth #imagination

في القلب كانت جذوره أعمق من أن تقتلع .. إلا إذا اقتلع القلب نفسه ↗

— يوسف السباعي

#love-hurts #love

If there are two clones, one good and one evil, I can’t kill on sight alone. It’s the same with love. Some love hurts, and some love elevates, but as to which one is which, they are two sides to the same sandwich.
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— Jarod Kintz

#elevation #evil #good #hurt #joy

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#hurt #love #tobias #tris #love

Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning? ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #love-hurts #funny