If I’m ever able to hope for nothing, it will be for the simple reason that I’m already with you. - Mark Manson

Romeo and Juliet is synonymous with “romance” in our culture today. It is seen as the love story in English-speaking culture, an emotional ideal to live up to. Yet when you really get down to what happens in the story, these kids are absolutely out of their fucking minds. And they just killed themselves to prove it!

people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.)

Humans are attracted to each other’s rough edges.