Quotes about Hope

I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.

Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.

People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

Tell me you won't walk away again and I'll call the whole thing off.