Quotes About Hope

every degree of despair and hope that slithered its way across the littered street to crawl over her skin.

It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if . . . but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there." Surprised

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?

Faith means believing in what you do even when it does not bear visible fruit.

The sun's touch is kind.

It was no longer a matter of growing a fat crop, only of growing enough for the seed not to die out. There will be another year, he consoled himself, another summer in which to try again.

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

Qué es el futuro, al fin y al cabo, más que una estructura de expectativas y esperanzas? Reside en la mente. Carece de realidad.

Lo que anhelamos, lo que todos nosotros anhelamos, es la palabra iluminada que abrirá las puertas de la prisión y nos devolverá la vida.

On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

I have a desire to be saved which I must call immoderate.

Love is a miracle, not a salvation.

back, I would still be here. Love is a miracle, not a salvation. No one would save me, that I had to seek for myself. But I would find it. I had finally turned to face the hunters with their guns.

I love you. Z squeezed his eyes shut. Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

Fuckin' A... hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.

You're a good Irishman, right? When Butch nodded, V said, Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah… Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And… my dearest friend… until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.

Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes. -Beth

I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.

I want that, he said fiercely. What? For you to be around. Her breath caught. A tenuous hope took fire in her chest. Really? He closed his glowing eyes and shook his head. Yeah. It's fucking stupid. It's crazy. It's dangerous. So it'll fit right into your life script. He laughed and looked down at her. Yeah, pretty much.

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here. Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it? Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

Hell, any plan that added and then we pray is not a trip to Disneyland.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.