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Quotes About Hope

Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that had first launched them on this quest.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.
~ Natsuo Kirino
My father and mother fed my sister and me on a diet of romantic dreams just as though they were giving us candy. Gradually the dreams wore thin, until in the end they wasted away to nothing.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
~ Neal Shusterman
What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.
~ Neal Shusterman
I choose to be known as scythe Anastasia after the youngest member of the family Romanov she was the product of a corrupt system, and because of that, was denied her very life—as I almost was had she lived who knows what she might have done. perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. choose to be scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that night have been
~ Neal Shusterman
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
~ Neal Shusterman
Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
~ Neal Shusterman
And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could?
~ Neal Shusterman
All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
~ Neal Shusterman
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
~ Neal Shusterman
Small victories are bet­ter than none.
~ Neal Shusterman
Hole... He grips Risa's hand tighter. Hole, Risa, hole... And she smiles Yes, Connor, she says. You're whole. You're finally whole.
~ Neal Shusterman
B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.
~ Neal Shusterman
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.
~ Neal Shusterman
I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.
~ Neal Shusterman
AWOL's most valuable commodity: hope. It's something in short supply for those who have been deemed not worth the sum of their parts.
~ Neal Shusterman
but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?
~ Neal Shusterman
still I cast my voice out into the void, hoping to reach something beyond distance
~ Neal Shusterman
So Connor stands there with secret anticipation each time there's a group of new arrivals, hoping beyond hope he'll find that self-righteous, self-important, pain-in-the-ass Lev still alive.
~ Neal Shusterman
Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?
~ Neal Shusterman