“People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes.”

“Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness.”

“Desperate times call for hopeful measures.”

“You never really know someone until your relationship with them is over.”

“…ultimately we all deserve the hand we’re dealt.”

“Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.”

“If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.”