Hope

"Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way"

"Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?"

"We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another."

"hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways."

"A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles."

"We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words."

"A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?"

"I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r"

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

"Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me"

"She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved."

"I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine."

"Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning."­"

"With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love."

"You can break a man with hope."

"I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me."

"What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?"

"For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"

"Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left."