a new outlook on the “L” word..
this excerpt opened my eyes…
"Love… It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build all these defenses, you build up this whole armor, for years. So nothing can hurt you, then, one stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They dont ask for it. they do something dumb like kiss you, smile at you, and then your life isnt your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out abd leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like, ‘maybe we should just be friends’ 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-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love".
-Rose Walker in The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
