#hope

I know what evil looks like under the surface. No matter how beautiful the exterior, how good the lies, I don’t fool myself, not any more. You carry a terrible burden that no one – not even me – can really understand. But that doesn’t change who you are, Frost. You’re a good person. And I love you.” “I wish…” My voice cracked. “I wish I could believe in that.” Luca brushed the dishevelled strands of hair away from my face again and looked into my eyes. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep saying it until you do. ↗

— Zoë Marriott

#hope #inspiration #love #lovers #romance-love

Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#history #hope #social-change #change

Let your dreams change your reality, don't let your reality change your dreams. ↗

— Jordan Rose

#dreams #hope #change

You can't be born again, but you can change. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#inspirational #change

Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change. ↗

— J. Leigh Bralick

#hope #change

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her. ↗

— Richie Singh

#compliment #hope #inspirational #love #perspective

It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon. ↗

— Bryan Davis

#hope #miracle #realization #change

You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb up out of some deep, really deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside. ↗

— James Baldwin

#hope #change

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom #hope #change

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#hope #longing #life