Quotes About Hope

shiver she couldn't shake. Maybe this was just her burden, to carry the weight of missing him forever. Because who knew when he'd feel stable enough to be with her in a complete way? The reality was he might never get there.

Jenna walked in the direction of the playground with feet that didn't touch the ground, headed toward her waking dream. Now, all that was left was to live it. And she did.

to live, no money. I don't know what, or when, or how. But I do know who. With the utmost certainty, I know who.

Intimacy, with its accompanying feelings of vulnerability and dependence, brought up every insecurity, unresolved wound, and frantic hope I had stored in me. All chickens came home to roost.

Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it.

Arriva il momento quando l'astuzia e la spiritosaggine sono spazzate via. Si trema all'idea che si sarà rimpinzati di finali tristi fino a farceli uscire dalle orecchie. Quelli che la gente considera finali lieti non sono, naturalmente, finali: i finali sono per definizione tristi.

This was surely the real boon of a religious upbringing: it gave you a number to ring in emergencies, which was some consolation, even if no one answered.

If your intentions are pure, I'm seeking a friend for the end of the world.

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

It's easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you're left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.

Dawn makes a sound. If you listen closely right as the sun starts to come up, you'll hear it. It's like the echo of birth; silence, followed by a gentle push, moans, and then the sloppy deluge of life. On good days I like it because it reminds me that I am alive. On bad days it makes me feel like dust.

The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

There's nothing more pathetic than dreaming dreams you know can never come true.

Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.

You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.

Reach out and touch faith.

I hoped his last sensation was the euphoria. The peace. The love. I had to believe it was the love.

Happiness is elusive, for sure.But like love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.

you need faith for forgiveness

Happiness is elusive, for sure.But lime love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.

I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.

The minute Jacob learned his father's life had become what, in relation to him it had been all along, an apparition, is when I saw desire begins to fade from his eyes. Jacob searched harder than ever for meaning in his being. His body had been orphaned long before, but this time, Thomas Doorley had taken his soul. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.

Days feel longer when you know there's something beyond the eternal here and now