Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Riding Shotgun
"Accidentally like a Martyr"
Excitable Boy (1978)
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Riding Shotgun
“Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.”
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Lover I Don't Have to Love
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: Anybody Out There?
Tarkan (1972) Turkish singer
Pop Music's Young Turk, Washington Post, November 18, 2001, https://archive.is/v9Jw, 2012-12-09 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A41014-2001Nov16&notFound=true,
“Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.”
Enid Blyton (1897–1968) author
Source: Six Cousins Again
“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”
Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You