Quotes – Neil Gaiman

"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 (The Kindly Ones)

Me said :

yup.. one thing I hate when I’m falling to someone is that I can’t have any control again to myself.. and having that mood-swing is so tiring.. being happy and then disappoint and then sad just because one small little thing really mess my day, and it forces my energy to the limit level..

positive thing saat kita jatuh cinta adalah tambahan semangat.. sometimes, memiliki perasaan itu saja bisa membuat kita merasa mampu melakukan segala hal, mampu melakukan banyak hal seolah kita sama sekali tak kehilangan energi.. bahkan di akhir minggu pun kita masih bisa semangat untuk menjalani hari, tak menghiraukan panas-macet jalanan utama asal bisa bertemu sang pujaan hati.. well, those are the positive..

the negative one, I have no more words to describe it more than Mr. Gaiman.. he described it very well.. pada saat perasaan itu memasuki masa galau, it turns into hell.. no more self-control and it creates hurt in your left chest, again and again until all you wanna do is just sleep so you can runaway from that pain for a while.. and even your nightmare is far better than your real life..

but I don’t think that it’s wrong to fall in love.. but protect yourself with not falling to deep so you can keep think clearly and move on when it starts to hurt you..