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Quotes About Hope

If we light a fire, someone out boating might see us." "That's a good idea," Sam said. "Or it would be. If we had matches to light a fire. Or if anyone was actually out boating." "Why don't we just find a place to hide?" Hayley said. "That way, when someone does come, we can see if it's a real rescue or not." "How the hell are you going to tell the difference?" Sam said. "Ask them?
~ Kelley Armstrong
I know that just means you understand. At least, I hope you do." "I do." I understand that you had an impossible choice to make. I understand that I couldn't be that choice. It had to be both of us--Annie and me--safe, and what you wanted didn't matter. Just like when you let go of my hands in the helicopter.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I said the same words he'd said to me before he'd let go. "It's okay." A twisted smile. "No, not really. But it'll be okay soon. Or as close as it can get.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Corey--who'd been walking ahead with Sam--let out a whistle. He gestured to a tractor trailer, pulling out of what looked like a parking lot. We jogged up to Corey and Sam. "Please don't be closed for the season," Corey murmured as we picked up speed. "Please don't be staffed by witches and demons, lying in wait for us. Please, please, please, just give us a break.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What do you say I come over tonight? We can take a walk, look for big cats, watch the stars come out…" I laughed. "Do lines like that ever work?" He only smiled. "Can't blame a guy for trying.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Mom isn't here," Corey said. "Neither is Travis. So much for my grand resurrection." He slumped onto the sofa. "We'll have to wait for them. Which is a little anticlimactic.
~ Kelley Armstrong
So Maya will grow up to be an amazing healer who can change into a killer cat. Daniel and Sam will roam the country hunting criminals and demons. Hayley and Nicole will divide their time between recording platinum albums and winning gold medals in swimming. And me? I'll be the cute, funny guy sitting at the bar, hoping for a good brawl to break out." "In other words, exactly where you were already headed," Hayley said. We all laughed at that, even Corey.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm sorry about Nicole," he said finally. That startled me so much I pushed up onto my elbows. "Were you drifting off?" "No. Just-- You mean about leaving her behind? Don't be sorry." Really, don't be sorry. "You were right," I continued. "I was acting on emotion; you were using your head. I'm sure she's on the mainland by now. A long way from here." At least, I hope she is.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When Jesus died, we died with Him. When He was buried, we were buried with Him. When He arose, we arose with Him. And when He ascended, we ascended with Him!
~ Kelley Varner
Time spent praying is never wasted, Midge, even if you don't like the answer.
~ Kelly Eileen Hake
Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That's all the fire Prometheus had to give us.
~ Kelly Link
Todos perdemos. Todos amamos y todos perdemos y todos seguimos amando de todas maneras.
~ Kelly Link
Kelly McClymer
~ unbearable.
Once your heart and mind are shattered, eternity's not so scary.
~ Ken Akamatsu
I've always been a reader; no matter what else I've lost, I hung on to that.
~ Ken Bruen
Expect nothing, and by Christ, you're entitled to even less.
~ Ken Bruen
But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without being crushed under the jackboot of Uncle Sam?
~ Ken Follet
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.
~ Ken Follett
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
~ Ken Follett
When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.
~ Ken Follett
He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
~ Ken Follett
But desperate people find courage.
~ Ken Follett
At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.
~ Ken Follett
It was a sunny day in early summer, and he could hear birdsong. In a nearby orchard that had so far escaped shelling, apple trees were blossoming bravely. Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best.
~ Ken Follett