“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“And if you are someone who still carries hope in your heart, kindness in your eyes and generosity in your fingertips despite terrible people happening to you, thank you. You are one of the few truly pure things left in this world, and you deserve to be protected.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they mad…”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”— Ian McEwan, amazon.com
“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”— Jim Henson, consequenceofsound.net
“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“You’ve got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”— Joan Bauer, amazon.com
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“But someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you’re drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”— Jessica Park, amazon.com
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com