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Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the

Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

Bart Yates
Falling In Love, Love You, Eye
Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Bart Yates
Loneliness, Pay, Quiet
Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.56, Kensington Books

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

Bart Yates
Art, Pain, Color
Bart Yates (2004). “Leave Myself Behind”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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