Hope Never Dies Quotes

“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“There are certain things worth getting mad about. Injustice is one of them. The greatest sins on this earth are committed by people of standing and means who abuse their power.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We passed a pickup that was doing fifty-five in a fifty-five. Clearly a sociopath.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Barack once told me that, at the end of the day, every one of us is just part of a long-running story. All we can do is try to get our paragraph right.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“As Khaled Hosseini writes, it’s better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“When a cemetery dies, where do you bury it?”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Our pain is ours, and ours alone. All others can do is mitigate the damage.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The current administration knew how to do one thing right: If you wanted to push through an unpopular agenda with minimal resistance, distract the bastards. Do something every day to grab the headlines—something big, bold, and preferably stupid—thereby banishing the dull stories about how you were systematically dismantling the country to the back pages with the Hagar comics.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The changes we’d made were being rolled back by the new administration. It was almost like we’d never been in office.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Just remember, you don’t judge a man’s character by what he does when things are easy. You judge him by what he does when they’re hard.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We were entering a new age, one where there were no absolutes like right or wrong. The worst part was that it felt like everyone else had already been living there for a long time. I was finally just catching on.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We don’t abandon our friends just because the going gets rough.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Why does your dart board have Bradley Cooper’s picture on it?” “It’s not important,” I said. “Not anymore.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Cell phones give you the illusion of protection, but are no real help if things really get rough. Same as guns. Most gun-fights are over within seconds. There is rarely enough time for a victim to pull their piece. There’s something powerful about the illusion of protection, though. Something comforting.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“As long as you have hope,” he said, repeating his words from that day, “you’re still in the game.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Things have been easy so far. They’re not going to stay that way. The path to victory isn’t a straight one. There are going to be ups and downs, twists and turns. There will be times when we all wonder what the hell we were thinking. That’s doubt. You know what the opposite of doubt is? It’s not certainty, because nothing in this life is certain. The opposite of doubt is hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism; I’m not talking about wishful idealism. I’m talking about that stubborn thing inside each and every one of us that insists something better awaits us as long as we have the courage to keep fighting.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“I passed a room where twenty or so residents were lounging in front of a big-screen TV tuned to Fox News. Half were snoring. The other half, I assume, had advanced dementia—it was their only possible excuse for not changing the channel.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“There are certain things worth getting mad about. Injustice is one of them.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We do have funerals for the living,” Jill said. “They’re called birthday parties.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, but sometimes the universe needs a little help.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Son of a buttermilk biscuit,” I said, grimacing. “We got bamboozled.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“passed a room where twenty or so residents were lounging in front of a big-screen TV tuned to Fox News. Half were snoring. The other half, I assume, had advanced dementia—it was their only possible excuse for not changing the channel. When”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Need a hand?”

I peeked at the figure on the horse’s back through cracks in my fingers. My eyes slowly adjusted to the light emanating from the horse, and the figure came into focus. It was Barack Obama, clad in a white toga.

He pulled me to my feet.

“Thanks,” I said. “You wouldn’t believe the dream I’ve had.”

“Try me.”

“You came to me one night, and said my friend had been hit by a train…and…is that a unicorn? I asked, squinting at the curled horn sprouting up between the horse’s ears.

“I call her Little Beast.”

I ran my fingers through the unicorn’s silken hair, which left rainbow glitter on my hand. The headache that had plagued me off and on all weekend was gone. There was no pain in my knee, or anywhere else in my body. “Is this heaven?”

“No,” Barack said. “It’s Iowa.”

And then suddenly we weren’t in the cemetery anymore. We were on a baseball diamond at the edge of a cornfield.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Guns, gold, jewelry, and DVDs,” Barack said, reading the window signage. “The story of America. All that’s missing are the Bibles.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Opinions are like elbows: everybody has one. Most have more than one.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“Maybe adults weren’t meant to have friends. We could have acquaintances, and we could have coworkers. We could have bosses and employees. But friends? Friends were for children. It was time for me to grow up.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“There was a saying in the Biden family: If you have to ask for help, it’s already too late…”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We passed a pickup that was doing fifty-five in a fifty-five. Clearly a sociopath. Maybe in Middle America it was acceptable to drive the speed limit, but not on the coast. If you weren’t doing at least ten over, you were liable to be run off the road.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“We sat in silence. I could still see Barack inside at the register, talking animatedly with his hands. The woman behind the counter was, for her part, transfixed. Give him five minutes, and Barack could have an atheist singing hymns.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

“I stepped through the open door. Inside the clubhouse was pitch-black. I couldn’t see a thing, including my own nose. It took me a second to figure out that was because of my sunglasses. Once I took them off, I could see better. Funny how that works.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies