"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

"Considering his opponent's longevity -- truly an eternal triangle. You wouldn't understand that, would you Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him, because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures -- and the glorious victories; all of these things you'll never know, simply because the word "love" isn't written into your book."

- McCoy

Well you told me that I was just not the one, and you left me standing out in the cold. It's been a long time and I'm so much better now that I'm looking back and seeing it all. And for the first time there's no pain in my life. Though it's a long hard road that I've gone, we had a good thing and it made me a man cause I know...

...you got me goin', pardon me my feelings are showing. I'm only saying what's on my mind.

Well I found you or maybe I found myself and I think we knew it all of the time. We fit together just like a lock and a key. And we opened up each other's minds. Yeah, I was laughing 'caus there was no room to cry. There was too much growing to do. We had a good time and it ain't over yet 'cause I know...

...you got me goin', pardon me my feelings are showing. I'm only saying...

You came from nowhere and you just jumped in my life, and I know it never will be the same. You made me love you and now I'm home once again. No, I never want to leave you no more.
'Caus I'm attached to the better half of myself and there's nowhere else that I'd rather be. You filled an empty, you fixed a bad broken heart, yes I know...

...you got me goin', pardon me my feelings are showing. I'm only saying what's on my mind.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent...