“I don't like to think of anything as hopeless”

“When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy”

“He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily.”

“I love her still, for if you know anything about that kind of feeling, you know how close it is connected to hopelessness and thus is about the only thing in civilization that don't degenerate with time.”

“Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist.""If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree.""I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.”

“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”