Dr.M

“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 Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“الموت الذي يقتل الحياة بالخوف حتى قبل أن يجيء. لو رُدَّ إلى الحياة لصاح بكل رجل: لا تخف! الخوف لا يمنع من الموت ولكنه يمنع من الحياة. ولستم يا أهل حارتنا أحياء ولن تتاح لكما الحياة ما دمتم تخافون الموت.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا