“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”
“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”
“My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.”
“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right, philosophy will never be a quick fix. Its influence is slow, the result of patient questioning and discussion.”
“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”
“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.”