faith

not blind, not foolish

This kind of faith builds the world.

"I think it was one of those things where you can't let go of how you first saw the person."
    "We never let go of that," Cecily said. "I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?"
    "I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people - of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.

The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai