" 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 means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defences. You build up all this whole armor, for years, so thet 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 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 a simple phrase like "Maybe we should just be friend." or "How perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. Its a soul hurt, a body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-appart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.

I hate love."

-Rose Walker-

(The kindly ones. Part 9, pp. 7-8 panesl 4-9. By neil Gaiman.)