"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

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"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

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"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Hope, Humanity, Optimism, Observation

"I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I'd made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me.FOR YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES.I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly's. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn't even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Hope, Faith, Writing, Love, Prayer

"Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. ['Box of Pandora']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Hope, Evil, Despair, Reality

"I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Hope, Regret, Love, Courage

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Hope, First, Nothing, Will

"I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Hope, Truth, Beauty, Evil

"When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Inspirational, Truth, Power, Future

"Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Truth, Happiness, Power

"Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have vanished, leaving no way to persevere. To sink into the abyss that is despair is to suffer an existence far worse than death; therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally-hope. For life goes on, and we must not live in despair. We must not."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Truth, Inspirational, Happiness, Power

"What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?"

Richelle Mead, American Author

Hope, Fall, Faith, Angels

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