flipping the pages

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You build up all these defences, you build up a whole suit of armour, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any 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 hostage. 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 you heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-in-side-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

---- by English-born American novelist, screenwriter and author, Neil Gaiman.



My sentiments precisely.