I was about to write a review of Fragile Things when I stumbled upon his list of works and I saw The Kindly Ones, a comic written by him. I googled about that comic and found a quote of the book:
"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."
I love this quote because it's so funny that I don't even know how to response to it. It's really honest and true; it's like what we've been feeling all this time but we're just too afraid to admit it. It's hard to love someone. But the hardest part is.. We can't help falling in love at all. We will, at the end, fall eventually, and the circle goes back round and round. Because who doesn't need love, anyway?
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