The Sudden Appearance of Hope

by Claire North

do you know how sometimes people say words and they should be terrible, but because you know the people and the way they say it, they aren’t?

Sometimes it’s easier to cheat, because life is hard. But you gotta have your mates and your family and people around you who love you and give a damn, and you gotta have hope, big hopes for the future, ideas about what you want, because if you’ve got all of that, then living becomes easier–not easy, just a bit easier–and you can see that cheating is desperate, and desperate is hard.”

There is nothing in this world which can master me, save me myself.

Alone, you can lose yourself, or you may find yourself, and most of the time you do both.

the beautiful and the ugly, and the beautiful stand and talk and are wonderful together, and the ugly have noodles.

Plan, backup plan, backup for the backup. Stick too rigidly to a plan, and you may drown in it, but fail to plan ahead, and you will drown for certain.

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

“I killed humanity,” she corrected, light as a feather, before I could speak. “I gave people the tool to suck out everything that was flawed, ugly and bitter, and it turns out that all that is left is a piece of marketing.

in knowledge, I find myself.