Laini Taylor Quotes

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.

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

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he'd been stabbed, slowly lifted his hand from his chest and laid it on the tumbled sheets between them, fingers half-curled into his palm. He was still regarding the ceiling with a fixed glare. "Because you trust them not to hurt you?" Mae asked tentatively. "No," Nick said, his voice harsh. "Because I'd let them hurt me.