“He didn’t liehe just gave her false hopes~”

“No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!”

“Patriarchy doesn’t get yet that ‘hope’ is a powerful force that drives creativity. Otherwise words like ‘false’ and ‘hope’ would never be forced into this unconscious coupling….Hope is not false. And never has been… Rather, hope is part of the often forgotten feminine contribution to the creative process.”

“He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children’s story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could’ve been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn’t drag itself out of the opened box.”

“That would be the death of anyone – to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn’t know that. If it is offered, refuse!”

“False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you’ll be dead by dawn.”

“Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.”