In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again.
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Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne (born 6 December 1978) is an English screenwriter and playwright. Born in Bristol, England, he has written for radio, theatre and film, most notably on the TV shows Skins, Cast-offs, This Is England '86, This Is England '88, This Is England '90, The Fades, The Last Panthers and the feature film The Scouting Book for Boys. He currently lives in London. 2Background Thorne was educated at St. Bartholomew's School, Newbury, Berkshire. 2Theatre Thorne's plays for stage include When You Cure Me (Bush Theatre, 2005), Fanny and Faggot (Finborough Theatre and tour 2007), Stacy (Arcola Theatre and Trafalgar Studios, 2007), Burying Your Brother in the Pavement (Royal National Theatre Connections Festival 2008), 2 May 1997 (Bush Theatre 2009), Bunny (Underbelly and tour 2010) which won a Fringe First at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival and Hope (Royal Court Theatre, 2014). He also collaborated on Greenland (2011) with Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Matt Charman at the National Theatre. In 2011 he participated in the Bush Theatre's project Sixty Six Books, for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible. In 2012 his version of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Physicists was staged at the Donmar Warehouse. His 2013 adaptation of the book and film Let The Right One In was staged in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland at Dundee Rep Theatre, London's Royal Court Theatre, West End and New York's S
They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.
One person. All it takes is one person.
Most of the time, I think you have to make a choice—at a certain point—of the man you want to be. And I will tell you at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you've learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends...then you're all alone. And being alone—that's so hard.
If you answer the gossip, you feed the gossip.
We haven’t become anything — we simply are as we are.
You know what? I'm done being made responsible for your unhappiness.
I opened a book. Something which has—in all my years on this planet — never ben a particularly dangerous activity.
The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.
People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in the really quiet ways.
We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.
To suffer is as human as to breathe.
There is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic.
I have never loved without causing harm.
Bravery doesn't forgive stupidity.
And I know it’s hard, and the other kids are awful, but you have to learn to be okay with that, because — there are worse things, okay?
That’s the thing, isn’t it? About friendships. You don’t know what he needs. You only know he needs it.
I thought for a long time I wasn’t a good enough dad for you because you didn’t like me. It’s only now I realize that I don’t need you to like me, I need you to obey me because I’m your dad and I do know better.
We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.