“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.”