wordsgood reblogged
this introduction is absolutely sending me
“Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth, to passion, to speed, to danger… Amidst the well-populated canon of tragic lovers, Romeo and Juliet achieve their celebrity by the combination of their youth, the mutuality of their passion for each other and the absence of any shadow of infidelity between them. There simply isn’t time. Their tragedy is that the first time is also the last time. They achieve the immortality of legend by dying before they have time to slow down, grow up, grow old. What a waste. Or what a way to go.”
screaming and crying and throwing up