“Tears don't hurt like the ache does.”
“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”
“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.”
“She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
“People say, "Reality bites!" I hope you don't wait until it bites you because when it does, it hurts like hell.”
“What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.”