"I want to suggest an intimacy between anxiety and hope. In having hope we become anxious, because..."

“I want to suggest an intimacy between anxiety and hope. In having hope we become anxious, because hope involves wanting something that might or might not happen. Hope is about desiring the ‘might,’ which is only ‘might’ if it keeps open the possibility of the 'might not.’”

- Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (183)