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“The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.”
“Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.”
“Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.”
“It's my letter," she began. "I cannot make it right.""Come in, come in," the Prince said gently. "Maybe we can help you." She sat down in the same chair as before. "All right, I'll close my eyes an...”
“I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.”
“As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.”
“but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of ones position.”
“With each brick, my hopes faded until nothing was left. If there had ever been a chance of Dominic and my father returning, then the wall took that too. My schoolteacher taught us a new song that t...”
“Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word judge the speaker that forms it. Perhaps they use us for their own high ends, use our strength a...”
“Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn ou...”
“You can endure every hardship with hope.”
“Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.”
“Some of you may feel that if you don't do something soon to change your life, you will be left by the roadside, alone, homeless and in despair. But is the despair not there as you reach and grapple...”
“Love. The word scared me. Love. The word broke me. I fell apart.”
“I have heard that you should not do bed business after too much hard work, " Snow Flower told me, "but I don't believe that my mother-in-law has heard that." She looked exhausted. I felt the same w...”
“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”
“I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.”
“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”
“Faith in God is a promise that were never alone, that theres a higher power that will look over us in times of despair. If people would just grasp this, even as an idea, theyll soon find that its n...”
“Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.”
