" Have you ever been in love?"
Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens
up 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. Its gets
inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the
darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should just
be 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 ♡