Hopepunk Quotes

“I cling to hope
Even when it shakes me off”
― Nathaniel Luscombe, When One World Ends, Another Begins: poetry for people who are still growing into themselves

“Billionaire-ism is a curable illness.”
― Diana Colleen, They Could Be Saviors: A Near Future Climate Thriller about Billionaires, Psychedelics, and Power

“...it was always better to believe in hope and try than give up and not try at all.”
― B.R. Kang, Caput Mundi: The Head of the World (Enarii)

“One general signature of hopepunk is that its stories counter tales of emotional darkness or rottenness, not just grimdark with its characteristically violent, amoral, and often dystopian/apocalyptic trappings, but also stories whose settings may be less recognizably grimdark but whose plots and character choices either advance zero-sum narratives where achievement requires causing someone else's fall, or portraits of human nature in which, in the end, people will always be selfish, backstab, let you down, or look out for number one, and in which systems will always be corrupt and unsalvageable.”
― Ada Palmer, Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy