Lauren Kate Quotes

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

There's the idea that love is supposed to hurt, but it really shouldn't hurt.

Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.

Love is junk.

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.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did this time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

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

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra