“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”— Unknown (via QUOTEMADNESS), quotemadness.com
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”— Laini Taylor, amazon.com
“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I awoke.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”— Richard Bach, 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
“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don’t know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day…and something good to happen.”— Ishmael Beah, amazon.com
“It’s difficult…ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”— Rabindranath Tagore, india.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”— Marion Zimmer Bradley, amazon.com
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com