When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered… Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>