Quotes About Hope

Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive." She stood up and walked across the room to the grand piano, saying, "You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

caught in a Scarlett O'Hara loop of promising herself that she would think about it tomorrow.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints/I love thee with the breath/Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose/I shall but love thee better after death.

end when they die. It only gets stronger." He winked

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

May God keep my going out and my coming in from now on and ever more.

It wasn't enough for Julia to be taken away from the family. All the good things about her had to be taken away, too.

She wanted to talk to the stranger who had kidnapped her son, to beg him to give her her Johnny back. She knew her baby was in there somewhere, and she would not give up.

I want to feel normal again," she once told me. "Maybe if I pretend I am for long enough, it might actually happen.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

you will eventually reach a point where that tight control you have over every single aspect of your life is going to fail spectacularly. Something is bound to happen. And it might be good, or it might be bad

Lena had never understood people sending flowers to a funeral home, but she finally realized that the flowers were something for the living to enjoy, a reminder that there was still life in the world, that people could go on.

Claire took a stuttered breath. She couldn't stand the soft, reassuring tone of his voice. There was still an infinitesimal part of her that wanted her husband to somehow make it all better.

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

You must be careful, Harper. You're stubborn, hardheaded, scientific practicalist, and all of this seems like a nightmare to you that you hope will simply evaporate when you wake up. But you don't wake up from this.

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.