“The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

—  Susan Mallery

Source: Almost Perfect

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you." by Susan Mallery?
Susan Mallery photo
Susan Mallery10
American author 1950

Related quotes

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Jonathan Franzen photo

“He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them…that's how you learn about others…and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 23

Cassandra Clare photo

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: Unfortunately, you never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
Source: City of Glass

Vanna Bonta photo

“It hurts to care! It hurts so much to care!”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

Dorothy Koomson photo

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Dorothy Koomson photo

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Legacy of Lies & Don't Tell

Prevale photo

“Thought and attention are the demonstration of how much one cares for a person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il pensiero e l'attenzione sono la dimostrazione di quanto si tenga ad una persona.
Source: prevale.net

Robert Jordan photo

“If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

Related topics