playing cupid has never made me feel better

[thecollegearmy]

"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

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of
the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent
only among civilized races living under artificial conditions;
barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy
immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently
to the physician than to the patient" - Ambrose Bierce