“And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.And a ridiculous thing, too.”
“Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous.”
“Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.”
“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”