"You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say..."

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”

- Warsan Shire  (via sadsapling)