“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.com
“It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I know I can’t change the past, but I can change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope.”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com
“Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that i…”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“I hadn’t expected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.”— Dai Sijie, amazon.com
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now ha…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. 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…”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“There is no hope. And you know it, like I do. Don't you? There is no hope for any of us.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now.”— Connor Franta, amazon.com
“Hope is no longer a whisper but a welcome friend who tells me that life is worth living. Because of hope, I know I am worth it. I know I have a reason to keep going. Hope is real. Let hope find you in your darkness.”— Rebecca Burke, twloha.com
“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me - not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an e…”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mist…”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her? His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.com