Defense mechanism Quote by Jodi Picoult

“Hope was a cancer inside him. He didn't want it; he did not want it. He could not bear these shoots of tender green…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Hope looks like a footprint, a half footprint where someone grew careless and stepped into soft mud that later hardened too thick to blow…

— Ally Condie

“Hope is a tease designed to prevent us accepting reality.”

— Downton Abbey

“The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for.”

— Katy Regnery

“Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.”

— Cynthia bond

“Hope outshines the cynic shadow that stalks the day.”

— Kirk DeMatas

“Hope had become almost a curse to her. She wished there need be no such thing. Ha, the torment of hoping, and the insult…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced,…

— Rose Tremain

“Hope is sometimes a fickle thing, my dear.” The endearment felt painful when spoken as part of such a heartbreaking conversation. “We hang on…

— Sarah M. Eden

“Hope made you infinitely more devastated in the face of disappointment.”

— Kristen Simmons

“Hope works like that. It hinds and blends in, only to pop out when you least expect it. It's always a surprise, something you…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than…

— Karen Traviss