Joshie’s Reviews > Gilgi, One of Us > Status Update

Oh, liking is good—loving someone—is good too. But being in love, really being in love: an extremely painful condition. There should be a drug to cure it. How hollowed out you are emotionally, cut off from people and things, you're not seeing any longer, not hearing any longer, everything is sinking–everything becomes profoundly unimportant. The effort to retain an interest in anything is painful and destructive.