Neil Gaiman
Full Name: Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
Birth Name: Neil Richard Gaiman
Birthdate: November 10, 1960
Birthplace: Portchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupation: Author and Cartoonist
Profile: Honoured with many awards including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. Best known for
The Sandman.
Website: https://www.neilgaiman.com/
Number of Quotes: 1
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.
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