My Writer’s Blog

Where I help myself express the ideas that go into my stories

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It’s ya boy back at it again with a quote. This time it’s a monologue from the protagonist named Robynne. I had a tough time digesting my ire for collectivist ignorance after my class discussion post on the topic of toxic masculinity so I channeled it towards this quote.

“You give me no choice because there are no choices to you. You are on one side of goodness and reason and they are on the other, and there is nothing they can do to get on your side. Except that is wrong, completely and utterly wrong. There is no line. There is no division between right and wrong. There are only scared people trying to control what they cannot, scared people who can make both the worst and the best decisions possible, scared people who can both damn or save. The only thing your divisions on the basis of right and wrong stand to do is divide you from your responsibility to yourselves. You have no right to damn anyone but yourselves and yet you refuse that on the basis of your righteousness. You think that because you choose to do good that you can do no wrong and yet it’s your best that do your worst. It is those that hide behind your righteousness and fuel your hatred that you should be looking towards with ire and yet you refuse because of your belief in your infallible knowledge. Though you presume to damn those you do not know again because your infallible knowledge, the same knowledge that allows your leaders and your investors to steal and cheat out of greed and want and yet a child that steals and cheats out of hunger and need is wicked. You are wicked. You are damned. You are every sin and every crime your broken have committed. The only difference between you and those you damn is the line you draw. That line has no power here and it will not save you.”

I think it’s pretty rough as it is and it’ll probably change a bit before it finds its forever home in the story, but I figured it would make good food for thought for whoever reads it lol

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After thinking on my story for a couple years I think I’ve found the theme it’s going to express, and it’s probably best expressed through this quote I just wrote.

“Hope is nothing without acceptance, and acceptance is nothing without hope. The issues between the two of them lie in their belief that one should be without the other. Yes, hope can be happy and acceptance can be sad, but one without the other means the one that remains cannot exist as it is meant to. It is corrupted without its other half. Acceptance without hope is nihilistic and apathetic, but hope without acceptance is ignorant and will not stop until the world is shaped to its will. I know the world is the saddest at the times where all you can do is hope for a better tomorrow, but it is also the happiest when you accept that the best tomorrow is not the one you hope for but the one you share. The one you make with others. It is hardest to include others in your hopes without first accepting yourself and the world around you for what it is, and it is often crushing when others hope for different things. That sadness, however, does not last. The only permanent sadness you will find is in the world where everything you hope for comes true, both the good and bad, and the world where it is accepted that nothing will ever change.”

I’m not sure who will have this dialogue, but I’m fairly certain this is where the story will end on. Probably with the protagonist talking with a personification of death somehow.