troyla hope

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[remanence-of-love]

[thehopefulquotes]

It’s better to be your genuine self, and have fewer of the right kinds of people in your life, than it is to surround yourself with those who only accept you as long as you conform to their idea of who you should be.

Zero Dean (via thehopefulquotes)

[jackdaw-kraai]

Honestly, some of my best characters are born by writing them acting like the exact thing they’re not. It never has to be addressed overtly, it never has to be brought up (although it’s more interesting if it is) but writing a character who reads exactly like the villain of a psychological horror thriller and yet is trying desperately to do the right thing and be kind is the most alive I’ve ever felt while writing.

Write the vilest villains with the exact demeanor of a kindly old grandpa. Not a demeanor that slips away to reveal a monster, but a monster who also acts and looks, exactly, perfectly, like a kindly elder.

The more disparate the two characters thrown together are, the better it works. The results are eerie, creepy, sometimes deeply tragic and sympathetic, sometimes hilarious and comedic, and sometimes so monstrous you scare yourself. And frankly? Do it. Scare yourself with what you can dream up. Drive yourself to tears with the tragedy. Laugh yourself sick over your own little joke.

It’s good for the writing soul.

[dailykafka]

— March 13, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

[chaos11madness]

blur

I don’t think I realized the boundaries I’ve kept up until they came back to hurt me. 

I wasn’t meaning to be so distant, so blind and so troubled. I didn’t mean to give you the coldest shoulder every night and hide from you so much. 

I wasn’t thinking of what you saw when you looked at me, or maybe I was thinking about what you were thinking about me. I don’t know really know, it’s been some time but still. You were harder to read the more time passed. I know I didn’t try as hard as I probably should have. 

I put up so many walls and boundaries in my head. I live mentally in my own mind on most days. I keep to myself and my reading, writing, watching and learning. 

I think most of the time, on top of the communication problems it’s just as much that we don’t take the time to view things from the other perspective. We will fight for the “right side” of the discussion. 

We constantly feel like we are just explaining but we aren’t. We are just repeating why one thinks one way and the other, the other way. 

[girlfictions]

— J. SULLIVAN

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from “Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[thoughtkick]

Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.

Jeff Hood (via thoughtkick)

[thedankmemes]

[thedankmemes]

[thedankmemes]

[narcoticvenus]

Homesickness

1. Louise Glück

2. Franz Kafka

3. limer3nce

4. Miriam Adeney

[surqrised]

I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via surqrised)

[quotemadness]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde (via quotemadness)

[thepersonalquotes]

[thepersonalquotes]