Hope

"I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console."

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

"She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so... I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her."

"History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme"

"Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you."

"The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,or drought,or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit,and hope,and what happens when dreams dry up."

"Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise."

"No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now."

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment."

"What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?"

"Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide."

"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

"Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her."

"Hope is the most evil of all emotions"

"What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul"

"Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them."

"My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law."

"For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters."

"I hope suffering don't exist."