If somebody should get hurt or seriously injured during one of these things the state is supposedly regulating, (the state) has the deep pockets to be sued over it.

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

If they can’t get close enough to hurt you, they can’t get close enough to love you.

Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

That's not even human. I told them that my leg was hurt, they didn't ask if I needed an ambulance or anything. They didn't ask none of that. They just left.