“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.”

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day…”

“In my heart I love her all the time.”

“How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly? It was love because it was worth it.”

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”