#hope

I saw that he was looking anxious. 'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary? ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#earnestness #fear #hope #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter

I wanted to putt my hand on this hand and hold it still under mine, made still by his made still. Oh he was bright and I was dark and I gave him all my darkness on that ship; but we joined, for all good things in the world, and to find somethin together; and loved, I never knew I could do it and was afraid; and on the bow of the ship that night that he said, "What have we done Christy?" I said, wonderin too, "But somethin good will come of this, I know somethin good will come of this..." Only sorrow came. ↗

— William Goyen

#hope #love #sadness #sorrow #love

He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#irial #responsibility #solution #love

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all. ↗

— George Huang

#good-guys #hope #lies #life #love

No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#holder #hope #hopeless #love #molestation

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#love #naive #paranormal-romance #young-adult #young-love

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conversation #hope #love #patience #understanding

Tonight Since I'd forgotten for a moment where you are, I search for you with hope in my bones. ↗

— Hester Knibbe

#love #poetry #love

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who have been in love once usually do. Its in their nature.. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #love

Why?' she whispered. He didn't need her to elaborate; he knew what she was asking. 'I don't want you to be afraid of dying. All those people have survuved cancer. You just watched hundreds of reasons to have hope drift off into the sky. ↗

— M. Leighton

#love #love