Have
you ever been in love?
Horrible
isn't it?
It
makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it
means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these
defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you,
then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into
your stupid life...You give them a piece of you.
They
didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at
you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets
inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a
phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter
working its way into your heart.
It
hurts.
Not
just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real
gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.
I hate love.
- Neil
Gaiman (Sandman)
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