Give my remains to Broadway

You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when they’re drunk, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy restaurant, a mentor who can tell you what the hell to do with your life, a reliable internet connection, a reliable human connection, a gift card to the grocery store, dinner parties with friends where everyone will pretend to have their crap together for just one night, a nice flirty text message to wake up to every morning for the rest of your life, for everyone to like you even if you don’t like anyone, and one of those nights that doesn’t end till 9 AM and reminds you what it feels like to be young and alive.

—Ryan O’Connell, What 20-Somethings Want on Thought Catalog (via nikad)

(Source: thoughtcatalog, via alookinglassgirl)

I’m madly in love with Leighton, so that’s what helps on my behalf, maybe so much that she doesn’t even have to be in love with me. I love enough, she’s mine. I’m incredibly close with her, she’s a lovely girl. I think she was 20 and I was 19 when we started the show and it’s such a kind of development stage of young adulthood. And to grow up on the show and to go through that together, you know you’re going to have a very strong bond. But she is a remarkable talent and there is just sometimes you can’t put things into words with connections or sparks or when you’re acting with someone. We’ve got the right pairing, I guess.

—Ed Westwick explaining how he has perfected the Chuck and Blair chemistry over the years.