Lauren Oliver Quotes

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.