Quotes About Hope

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

You want me to give her a key? the guy asked. I want you to give her a possibility, she told him, looking at my necklace again. And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

All I want is someone decent." She sniffled again, her eyes filling with tears. "You know? Kind. Good. Like in all those love stories I'm such an expert on. It can't just be fiction. It can't. Those guys are out there, I know it. I just can't find them." Those guys were out there. In fact, one was watching us right now, somewhere nearby. Keeping his distance, knowing she needed me to herself right then, but still, just outside the door.

You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

I planned my whole future around Adam, she said now, quietly. And now I have nothing. No, I told her, now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

There is always the rest of the story, right? Even if you don't know right now what it is.

I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done." "It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.' 'No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, he said. We're all just out here hoping for the best.

It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

For you, I wish for second chances

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge