Quotes About Hope

The dogs used after the 9/11 disaster had needed people new to them to pretend to be lost so they could find someone and know that people could be okay.

Oh Galen—I've never been anybody's first choice. There's no reason for that to start now.

Damn, Trav wanted this, had barely dared dream of it, yearned for the time Mackey Sanders would be old enough, whole enough, well enough, to possess like this, like a man, an equal, a partner.

Amal regarded him with that steady adult expression, the new one that had come after the former administration had destroyed everybody's innocence and COVID had taken their hope. "Just tell me where to apply," he said.

But maybe cotton candy dreams show a person where the bones of real dreams may lie. Maybe if they had steel in their hearts and spines, they could build a skyscraper out of dreams and put that steel in the girders and the clear glass of vision in the windows, and the bedrock of their faith in the foundation.

best you can. You can. I think you're doing okay, man. I really do.

Maybe someday, it won't have to be a tragedy to be gay, you

was daylight at the end of the tunnel. A long, lifetime of a tunnel, into the best, most glorious day.

I've labored my entire life for a better world than this. It's such a step backward.

Would that change? With enough peace, enough joy, would hope stop being the traitor at Deacon's table? Someday, maybe. Someday, maybe hope would be his friend.

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

But maybe cotton candy dreams show a person where the bones of real dreams may lie. Maybe

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

could show you such faith," he said, almost transported by the thought. "I could believe in you until all your pain faded to memories. I could believe in you as we lived side by side. I could be your lawyer and defend your right to make beautiful porn until we're too old to get it up. My faith could be absolutely boundless, if only….

Dane lowered his ear to make out what Clay was saying. It sounded like "Please get better, please get better, please get better…." And Dane closed his eyes and steeled his cynical heart and prayed.

That's the hard part. The hope. You two gotta decide if you're up for the hope and the disappointment right there, because that's the hard part.

under the heartbreak blue sky.

If I'm lucky, someday I'll figure a way out of porn and end up with a guy who works at a gas station but doesn't mind my fifty-dozen allergies and big mouth.

People shouldn't be given up," she said, her voice sinking. "Not if they make you happy." He smiled a little.

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.

We're going to be in love forever and ever," Billy promised back. "I'm going to graduate, and you and me are going to get married in a park, like Rivers and Cramer are threatening to do, and our mothers can come be a lot together, and we'll invite the flophouse and your people and?

The ball never fucking landed.

It's a mystery. It's like all babies. It's a mystery, and all we can do is pray.