Quotes About Hope

When darkness fell, he told me to close my eyes and dream, for in my dreams I would find another world, and in my waking life I would soon enough find such a world as well...

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.

In the morning, she told everyone she was perfectly fine, even though she wasn't, even though she wished she was still on that green hill where Levi had been buried, where the grass smelled so sweet, where there was no beginning and no end.

You were a boy. Life is a mess, that's what Isabelle told me when I decided to have the child, but all we can do is live it.

Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in the world, she opened a book and was therefore saved, discovering that a novel was as great an escape as any spell.

He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...

Go," Jet told Franny. "What's meant to happen will.

They believed that remembering someone could bring them back to you long after they had departed, if you only concentrated hard enough, if you stood outside on a windy night and tried to count every star sprinkled across the universe like rice on a table or stones in a lake, like bones in a body or snowdrops in the grass.

Where there were lilacs there would be luck.

Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.

was in this way that the mother discovered that she still had the will to live, even now, and she was usually the first one to help when the cottage was rebuilt.

Her heart, though broken, still beat.

Franny was always going to be the one to break the curse. Here was her secret: she loved so deeply the depth could never be charted.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

Some of the guys he knew said the only people who didn't fear death were those who had nothing to lose and he thought they were probably right.

Have you ever felt that you lost something, and you can't get it back? As though it's been stolen right out from under you? Sure, the barman said. It's called life.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.

That's good luck, Aunt Jet says when their electricity goes as well. We'll be the light in the darkness.

Love is a false construct. It's how people convince themselves that life is worth living.

How could I lose you when I haven't even found you?

When you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually you pick yourself up and look out the window and once you do see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still.

I want the words you hold in your hand, lamplight in a jar.