Quotes About Hope

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

And if you don't find what you're looking for? At Roy's question Addie looked up. Then all I've lost is time.

Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the daughter I already have.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?

He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.

tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.

Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting you hadn't completely given up.

I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. It's the sound of your voice, without anyone drowning you out. It's having the grace to say yes, and more important, the right to say no. At the heart of freedom, hope beats: a pulse of possibility.

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds." "I'm sorry." He shrugged. "I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees.

It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Se dai il tuo cuore a qualcuno e lui muore, lo porta via con sé? Devi passare il resto della vita con un buco dentro che non può essere riempito?

His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he had become in order to save her.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

What do parents look like? You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.

So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?

the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.

My eyes are swollen shut. The sun rises. I don't.