I wrote this for me, but if it helps you, wonderful.
"And Oh, oh—Well, You know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before. That was how Digory Felt. But it was no good trying to throttle this hope. It might—really, really, it just might be true"
- Lion, Witch, And the Wardrobe.
"For some of us, we have been disappointed one time too many. The pain to hope has grown too difficult, and our sick hearts have believed a fatal lie: The risk of hoping is more costly than the benign shelter f