“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.”
- Neil Gaiman
And yet like a moth to the naked flame...
- Ghostwise
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“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other”
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Can love be measured by the amount of hurt?
- Ghostwise
6 comments:
This poem drips shear honesty
Neil Gaiman - my second most favorite comic book writer, the author of Sandman. I took him as an example that reading comics can be intellectually challenging. And FUN.
Yeah, I looked him up, can't wait until the day I have time to read him, thanks for the introduction
You're welcome. Now my favorite wrote "Who watches the Watchmen?" going to be made into a movie soon. Watch out for it. :-)
Alan Moore? I shall have to add him to this growing list
:-) He wrote about the complexities of viewing what is a terrorist more than 20 years before 9/11 in "V for Vendetta". He also create the greatest transformation in comic history (to me) by taking on a "stupid" character like Swamp Thing bringing it to a mind-blogging dimension. Enjoy. :-) And I haven't even mention about Frank Miller, have I? :-)) But that is enough, don't worry :-))
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