Quotes About Hope

No tenía ganas de nada. Sólo de vivir.

Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar.

Creí que me iba a matar. Eso fue lo que creí, tío. Y hasta dejé de pensar para morirme antes de que él me matara. Pero seguramente no se atrevió a hacerlo.

I waited thirty years for you to return, Susana. I wanted to have it all. Not just part of it, but everything there was to have, to the point that there would be nothing left for us to want, no desire but your wishes.

Voy a dormir llevándome al sueño estos pensamientos. Dicen que los pensamientos de los sueños van derechito al Cielo. Ojalá que los míos alcancen esa altura.

Hay aire y sol, hay nubes. Allá arriba un cielo azul y detrás de él tal vez haya canciones; tal vez mejores voces… Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar.

Aquello está sobre las brasas de la tierra, en la mera boca del infierno. Con decirte que allí mueren, al llegar al infierno regresan por su cobija.

Siempre vivió ella suspirando por Comala, por el retorno; pero jamás volvió. Ahora yo vengo en su lugar.

No matter how things look, you must keep going. How do you do that? By following your heart.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says." "Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean chill?" "Precisely. Just what I said.

Have a nice life and an even nicer afterlife.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

They're going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he'll be very disappointed. He's counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings." "I see where that could be a problem," Ian agreed, and he tenderly laid his hand against his son's cheek. "In that case, you can tell him I said this is almost heaven.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.

I have always known that you will visit my grave. I see myself as a small brown bird, perhaps a sparrow, watching you from a low branch as you pray in front of my name. I will hear you sound out my epitaph: Aqui descansa una mujer que quiso volar. You will recall telling me that you once dreamed in Spanish, and felt the words lift you into flight. The sound of wings will startle you when you say volar, and you will understand.

I was chaos on the first day, waiting for the Word.

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?" "Everything but us.

Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get

Some people never get over their first loves. They spend their whole lives trying to recapture the thrill. Sometimes, after fifty years they get back together. They meet at some reunion or other and realize they were meant to be together.

Miri, sweetheart—life is hard," Henry said, "but it's worth the struggle.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. My father's had an awful accident. Please help him God. He's really very kind and nice. Even though he doesn't know you the way I do, he's a good father. And he needs his hand God. So please, please let him be all right. I'll do anything you say if you help him. Thank you God.

When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her. 'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?' 'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his Job to help you through it." ? Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event

And now she was going. She was going to walk up the steps leading to the silver bird that would gobble her up, holding her in its belly until it reached its faraway destination, where it would spit her out. In one piece, she hoped.