love


"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so
vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens your heart and it means
someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these
defenses. you build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt
you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person,
wanders in to your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They
don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile
at you, and them 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 a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very
perceptive" 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 body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate
love" -Neil Gaiman