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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 sh...more

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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,...more

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Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt hi...more

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It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

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Words, he knew, could scar.

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Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

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It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.