Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

Of course I get hurt.

You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

There's always going to be something said that hurts you.

People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it's easier that way. You don't get hurt, and there's less risk involved if you build this hard shell.

Unfortunately, I've been burned a lot. So I have my guard up.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better