“After centuries of living in despair and all hope seems lost, love can find even the most forsaken.”

“After centuries of living in despair and all hope seems lost, love can find even the most forsaken.” is an author-attributed expression that sets prolonged despair against love’s capacity to reach those who seem beyond hope. Its decisive movement is from seeming abandonment to the possibility of connection.

Wording and Attribution

The sentence begins with an immense span of suffering: “centuries” of despair. It then intensifies that condition with the loss of hope, before turning on the assertion that love can still find the forsaken. The final phrase makes the claim expansive rather than exclusive: love’s reach extends to those described as most abandoned.

The expression is credited to Danielle Paquette-Harvey. Its construction gives the bleakness of its opening real weight, but does not let despair have the final word; the sentence’s closing promise reframes abandonment as a condition that love may overcome.

Context

The expression appears in material identifying the story as taking place during the events of The Awakening, the second book of the Blood and Kisses series. In that context, it serves as a concise thematic frame: it places the possibility of love beside the prospect of long-lasting despair without specifying a particular character or outcome.