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“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”
“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just...”
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
“Tell me whats the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesnt knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope”
“Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. ...”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in ...”
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
“...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?”
“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.”
“There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”
“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”
