Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isnt it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest & it opens your heart, & it means someone can get inside you & mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so 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 dont ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isnt your own anymore.

Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out & leaves you crying in th darkness, so a simple phrase like ‘maybe we should just be friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts.

Not just in th imagination. Not just in th mind.

Its a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

- Neil Gaman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones