“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.”
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...”
“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise ”
“I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope”
“It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.”
“And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost.”