Have You Ever Been In Love? Horrible, Isn't It? It Makes You So Vulnerable. It Opens Your Chest And It

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, The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman

"They never liked us, did they?" "Gods don't 'like'. They love and they hate and they ignore ... "

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman

Life is too short for chess.

Henry James Byron

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Todd Faber; The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

But of course! Nothing says "romance" like the gift of a kidnapped injured woman!

Yvaine; Stardust

If a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

The Sandman: World's End Neil Gaiman