Have you ever been in love?
Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so v.u.l.n.e.r.a.b.l.e. It opens your chest,
and it opens your heart. 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 that one 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 yours a n y m o r e. 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 just be friends" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
It hurts. Not just 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