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“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”
“I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.”
“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten...”
“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
“Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they ...”
“David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmad...”
“And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”
“What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.”
“To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.”
“As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laug...”
“Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?” He sighed.”
“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”
“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”
“The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for R...”
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the...”
“In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the com...”
“I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing...”
“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.”
“Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.”
“Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.”
