“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”

“And when boys are hurt, they hurt us—physically, psychologically, and economically.”

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

“And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

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

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

“The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”