Camille Quote by Hilary Mantel

“The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“You’re good at so many things,” Camille said. “I’m a fat loser,” Julie stated. “And don’t say I’m not fat because I am.” Camille…

— Susan Wiggs

“Astrid looked at Lana, now leaning against the window, and Diana, lost in thought, and reminded herself that at times she had hated Diana.…

— Michael Grant

“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came into each…

— Scott Simon

“Still, a thrill raced through her when she thought about the one thing she would have. Camille wrapped her arms around Oscar’s waist and…

— Angie Frazier

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world…

— Mark Ravenhill

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

— Aimee Bender

“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!”

— Madeleine Urban

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

— Voltaire

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

— Martin Seligman

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

— J Robert Oppenheimer