“He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.”

“I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.”

“Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.”

“I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.”

“I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.”

“You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him.”

“I always remember my disappointment the next morning when I found that my hand was still on because I thought, well, if I lost my hand I'm all right, I shall live, they can't send me out without a hand again. I was 20 then, it's not altogether a right thought for a young man to hope that he's been maimed for life.”

“Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”

“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”

“We have to save the world," I reminded him.
He reached for me. "The world can wait. I can't.”