“And hope is like love…a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”— Kate DiCamillo Related Quotes “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”— Octavia E. Butler “While we must always strive to grow beyond those who come before us, we must revere and learn from those that broke the ground originally, endeavor to honor their legacy, and then continue in our own vision.”— Alexandra Silber “A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?”— Joyce Carol Oates