Desert Quote by Alice Hoffman

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

— Patricia Briggs

She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness…

— Kristin Cashore

She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.

— David Levithan

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

— Irvin D. Yalom

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

— Melissa de la Cruz

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might…

— Susanna Kearsley

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

— Herman Melville

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared…

— Jane Austen

“It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says: all you have left of her is your bitterness.…

— Antonio Machado

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

— Mitch Albom

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and…

— Charlize Theron