Liane Moriarty Quotes

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white knight, he will come." One side of Callie's mouth kicked up in a wry smile. Anne had said those words countless times over the last two decades. "Forgive me, Anne, but I'm not so certain that he will." Oh, he will," Anne said firmly. "And when you least expect." I find I'm rather tired of waiting." Callie laughed half-heartedly. "Which is probably why I've turned my attentions to such a dark knight.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

He who has never hoped can never despair

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

I don't want to lose hope.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.

I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

Without dreams, there could be no despair.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.