A little secret.

This may surprise you but ...

I don't think I'll ever fall in love. I'll force myself not to. It scares the shit out of me.

I don't think I am brave enough to give a part of me to someone, let someone into my head and my life. It is ... terrifying. I have seen and heard and read of so many bad things happening in love and marriage that ... I don't know, I just don't think I'd be willing to make the sacrifices involved.

I know fiction isn't a very good base to judge things on but after all, fiction is based on reality. Just because something's in a story book doesn't  mean it has never happened. Writers do draw inspiration from somewhere.