Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

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

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

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.

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

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.