People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure.
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.
Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.
People say things unintentionally, not realizing that it could hurt someone's feelings because they've just never experienced what you have.
