#drama

jock; Back off Royd; Are you threatining me?? Jock; Not if you back off!! Royd: You look like shit go to bed. Sophie: Take your hands off me Royd: Better mine than sanbornes. Sophie; Take your hands off me or so help me ill make a unic of you! Royd; Try it fight me i want to hurt you Sophie: Then youre sucssedding il have bruise are you happy? ROYD: NO IM NOT HAPPY! Jock: Two years ago her father shot her mother tryd to kill her son and ended up shoting sophie instead the attack came out of the bule ↗

— Iris Johnson

#scary-assassins- #design

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#dramatic #kelley-armstrong #the-awakening #dreams

Kate was about to protest when something caused her to look in her mother’s direction. She was standing statue-like in front of the television with that brave, painted-on smile. Then Kate realized what had caught her attention: her mother’s tear-filled eyes were reflecting the on-off motion of the blinkers like a watery mirror. Kate stared transfixed at the flashing points of light that betrayed her mother’s pain. The urge to tell her father how much she wanted him to be proud of her and how much he had hurt her, faded in the dark depths of her mother’s eyes. ↗

— Sabrynne McLain

#family-drama #mental-illness #family

We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister ↗

— Cheri Paris Edwards

#inspirational #family

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#drama #friends #friendship #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic. ↗

— Idries Shah

#inspirational #life #reality #sufis #sufism

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #self-help #inspirational

When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway. ↗

— Roger Hedden

#hope #modern-life #life

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#actors #drama #entrance #exit #life

Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. ↗

— José N. Harris

#drama #excuses #life #life-and-living #life