Hope

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
― Wendell Berry

“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, Bowen's Court & Seven Winters

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music