“Saving You The darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him. Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again.” 
― Lang Leav

“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” 
― Sarah Ban Breathnach

“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” 
― Aristotle

“But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.” 
― Emily Maguire

“Hope does not leave without being given permission.” 
― Rick Riordan

“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

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” 
― Anne Carson

“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.” 
― Jennifer Elisabeth