Have you ever been in love? horrible isnt
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 defences, a whole suit of
armour 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 yours 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' turns into a glass splinter working its way into
your heart. It hurts. Not just in imagination. Not just in the
mind. Its a soul-hurt, a real gets inside you and rips you apart
kind of pain. I hate love.
-Neil Gaiman