Hope

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

"It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..."I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

"Hope is the easiest thing that turn into dust."

"Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for a life-affirming masterpiece, and characters you will never forget!"

"Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled."

"I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little."

"He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife. He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was life, she was his. He took her lips and tasted his freedom once more. The subtle tenderness. The hope hidden in joined breath. He took it into himself. Soaking in the peace that came with it. And even as the rustling began he felt still, he felt calm. Scratching and scrapping within the stones, and the rustle of wings. But all Eli knew was the nature of love."

"How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History Lesson"