#hurt

"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."

"I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend."

"I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you cando is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestitehermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you'vebeen to college."

"The dead do not hurt you; only the living do."

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

"I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day."

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."

"One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects."