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

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.”

Scott Hahn (1957) American theologian

“It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

“You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

“There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

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

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

“That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.”

Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist