Plenty

"The Universe seethed a bilion years to give us a row of cabbages, or a quail's egg, or a broken heart. The unfathomable depths of time gave (him) hope. The word has been made trivial, a platitude to deploy whenever there's a need to keep chins up, but "hope" contains a darker seed than that. Hope implies doubt, and the possibility that things really may turn out just as badly as they look."

Interesting- it implies that true hope is linked with doubt/fear; they are not opposites like black and white but constructs that depend on each other like good and evil. This helps me understand why my hope is not all pollyanna-ish - and why my doubt stems from a seed of a dream of something better.

"These are degrees of eccentricity, I suppose, or what we might otherwise call mysticism."


Quotes from Plenty, By Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon