"Wishes are false.  Hope is true.  Hope makes its own magic."
-Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

"Maybe it takes everything you have, every last atom, to sail past that dark idea, and then on arrival all you have to offer the world is your exhausted, battered self.  But that's everything.  You know?  It's enough."
-Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child.  Listen to the don'ts.  Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.  Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...anything can happen, child.  Anything can be."
-Listen to the Mustn'ts by Shel Silverstein

"To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly."
-Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

"Another hope - Can I have another hope?"
- Mary Shelley

"It's just like the line in the Aeneid, Et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, "even these things it will one day be a joy to recall."
-Among Others by Jo Walton

"As everything else has fallen apart, what has stayed intact is something I always had, the thing that made me a writer: curiosity.  Hope."
-The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy