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“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 wh...”
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
“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 thats why I write fiction, probaby. Its my attempt to keep that frag...”
“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?”
“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.”
“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.”
“hope could betray youbut if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.”
“Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?”
“Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!...”
“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”
“Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell.”
“Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”
“I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets i...”
“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't b...”
“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
“And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
“If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair...”
“Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207”
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teache...”
