Quotes About Hope

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

Every so often I contemplate suicide merely to remind myself of my complete lack of interest in it as a solution to anything at all.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. But they're never going to. And even though you know they're never going to, you still hope they will.

All beginnings are intrinsically happy.

Siempre creemos que a nuestros padres les alcanzará un rayo y que, por arte de magia, se convertirán en las personas que querrías que fueran, o que volverán a ser las personas que eran. Pero eso no va a pasar nunca. Y, aunque sepas que nunca va a pasar, sigues teniendo la esperanza de que pase.

My mother was like a cat who could never catch the tail of happiness because she never stopped chasing it.

The baby I could keep came when I was already dead. I was twelve when I was murdered, fourteen when I looked into the Yalu River and, finding no face looking back at me, knew that I was dead. I wanted to let the Yalu's currents carry my body to where it might find my spirit again, but the Japanese soldiers hurried me across the bridge before I could jump.

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

You have to believe in it to get it...

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

Because you're the one. Because I've never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don't want any of that with me, I'll give you the best I've got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don't want it.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

After hell comes heaven.

I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room— Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP , go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.

Bright light. You've always found your way.

It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.

There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.

The purest magic is in the heart.....

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon—though I really think dragons get a bad rap—kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.