Jacqueline Carey Quotes

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

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

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

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.

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

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

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.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

What we do to each other are the worst things that we do.