“This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot”

“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”

“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.”

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

“We're all curious about what might hurt us.”

“Stop beating your head, you might hurt yourself.”

“Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.”

“A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.”

“A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.”