Hopeless-romantics - Hopeless Romantics

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

—Albert Camus

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

I’d rather soak myself in loneliness than to be soiled by hands that do not know they are hurting me.

I really do love that romantic shit yo

"Come with me now to see my world. Where there's beauty beyond your dreams. Can you feel the things I feel? Right now, with you?"

TARZAN (1999) dir. Kevin Lima & Chris Buck

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt