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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the s...more

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You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

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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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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

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There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

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It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn’...more

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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no m...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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She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

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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.