Quotes About Possibility

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

It is a necessary difficulty that the Land must sometimes keep secrets from itself, the Sky shows as we walk. It is the only way to make hope possible.

And everything I might have been, the different futures I might have taken, all my different lives and deaths that existed in their endless possibilities were extinguished in a single repetition of her three words. "You will hunt." When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen? And all that might have been was long, long gone.

It had been amazing. Just utterly, utterly amazing, like that whole summer before senior year had been, when everything had seemed possible, when everything good felt like it was just within reach for once, when if he could just hang in there, it really would finally all come together

I kept thinking, in another life, if I made different choices, it could be you and me instead.

The difference is that I think you never do it. Even if you're tempted, even if you're really close, because who knows? There might be more.

BRIT MANDELO The Finite Canvas

More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

I imagine I could do anything," I said easily. "If you would ask it of me.

Yes. No. Maybe. Elsewhere. Soon.

Not all dreams need to be realized.

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.

Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. In my sleepy state it occurred to me that if the well was a portal out, there must also be a portal in. There

All doors are open to the believer.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

the world as it was could never be more than a fraction of the world, for the real also consisted of what could have happened but didn't, that one road was no better or worse than any other road, but the torment of being alive in a single body was that at any given moment you had to be on one road only, even though you could have been on another, traveling toward an altogether different place.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.

I cannot say who I will be tomorrow. Each day is new, and each day I am born again. I see hope everywhere, even in the dark, and when I die, I will perhaps become God.