"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."

~blue_phoenix