“It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.”

— Cassandra Clare , The City of Lost Souls

Variant: It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
Source: City of Lost Souls

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Cassandra Clare 2041

American author 1973

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: My Life in Black and White

“Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.”

Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults

Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?

“All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one.”

Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964) writer

(19 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.