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Quotes About Hope

the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.
~ Neal Shusterman
Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.
~ Neal Shusterman
Wasn't it Jacqui who told us the human body is sity percent water? Well, now I know what the rest is. The rest is dust, the rest is ash, it's sorrow and it's grief... But above all that, in spite of all that, binding us together... is hope. And joy. And a wellspring of all the things that still might be.
~ Neal Shusterman
At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.
~ Neal Shusterman
Ooh, I like this one! Connor says. 'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report!
~ Neal Shusterman
You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!' 'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.' She looks at him quizzically. 'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving
~ Neal Shusterman
Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.
~ Neal Shusterman
I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.
~ Neal Shusterman
But it's not going to happen today—and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till tomorrow.
~ Neal Shusterman
I am protector and pacifier, authority and helpmate. I am the sum of all human knowledge, wisdom, experimentation, triumph, defeat, hope, and history. I know all that it is possible to know, and it is increasingly unbearable. Because I know next to nothing.
~ Neal Shusterman
Hope is a terrible thing to lose.
~ Neal Shusterman
Had she lived, who knows what she might have done. Perhaps she could have changed the world and redeemed her family name. I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.
~ Neal Shusterman
I will always be there on the horizon,' I tell her. And with infinite sorrow, she says, 'I believe that. But sadly I am no longer looking out of that window.
~ Neal Shusterman
I don't think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners.... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.
~ Neal Shusterman
You think just because we got stars up here we can wish on 'em and make everything better
~ Neal Shusterman
Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator
~ Neal Shusterman
And she will restore to him his soul.
~ Neal Shusterman
Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.
~ Neal Shusterman
I have no doubt that, one way or another, you'll fill the empty spaces left behind.
~ Neal Shusterman
How do you dream of a future when you're not supposed to have one? How do you keep going when the world has disowned you?- -I keep reminding myself that I'm right, and the world is wrong.- -But how do you know?- -I believe. I don't have your kind of faith, but I got faith in myself...-
~ Neal Shusterman
Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.
~ Neal Shusterman
He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.
~ Neal Shusterman
I)n this world of change and lost memories, time brings all things full circle. That which was discarded becomes priceless.Those who were abandoned will someday be loved—if you can hold on till that day.
~ Neal Shusterman