Hello, this is EnZo

I was reading Sandman and I came across this conversation which has such great meaning I decided to quote it here for reference.

"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’ or ‘how very perceptive’ 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. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."

–Rose Walker, in Sandman #65 "The Kindly Ones:9"

So there you have it, that’s what love is all about. It kinda sums everything up doesn’t it? Your life is just fine until one day someone comes along and you decide to give a piece of yourself to that person who in the first place did not ask for it… It sounds like you’re asking for it. Which unfortunately, is very true. So when things don’t work out please remember that you’re the one who asked for it in the first place. A harsh fact to accept but quite true to a certain extent.