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Quotes About Hope

The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on that day when life first appeared, yet i was embittered, I wept for what i had lost and what the world had lost and would yet lose again.
~ Alice Hoffman
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
~ Alice Hoffman
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
~ Alice Hoffman
Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters
~ Alice Hoffman
I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.
~ Alice Hoffman
Things without all remedy should be without regard. But what you can cure, do so willingly.
~ Alice Hoffman
He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.
~ Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," Jet said, quoting Emily Dickinson.
~ Alice Hoffman
For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end.
~ Alice Hoffman
Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.
~ Alice Hoffman
What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.
~ Alice Hoffman
Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.
~ Alice Hoffman
If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.
~ Alice Hoffman
Every time a new house was built, a bucket of peach stones would be found, and even children on their way to school knew that finding one meant luck, whatever the outcome: love forgotten, love gone wrong, love despite all odds, love ever after, love after all this time.
~ Alice Hoffman
One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope....
~ Alice Hoffman
People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.
~ Alice Hoffman
She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.
~ Alice Hoffman
You know what love is?...It's what you least expect.
~ Alice Hoffman
You wanted a blue rose, Brock said. Didn't you? Wasn't that the whole point? Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?(Elinor) Here's what I think: it's the quest that matters.(Brock)
~ Alice Hoffman
Anything whole can be broken, and anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.
~ Alice Hoffman
Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.
~ Alice Hoffman
Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you're through. Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing left inside you but the past?
~ Alice Hoffman
To want someone so much could be a terrible thing, or it could be the best hope a man could have.
~ Alice Hoffman