Top 74 Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes
#1. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.
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#4. You believe no one is watching because it helps you sleep at night, but someone is always watching.
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#6. Having choices is the problem. Everything would be easier if someone told me what to do: push the button, stop seeing Marcus, get over Jesse. The problem with choices is that I usually make the wrong ones
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#7. He didn't kill himself because of a single overwhelming problem; he died from a thousand tiny wounds.
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#8. Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
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#9. Why do people who so obviously hate children have so many of them? Audrey asked...Because they hate everyone else more. Their bratty kids are their revenge on a society that has denied them the riches they so rightly deserve.
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#10. I'm not sure if the Bible is a real book written by God or just a collection of stories for people who need help putting their hearts back together, but it's comforting, and I try not to think about it.
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#12. Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.
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#13. Because sometimes it's easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.
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#15. There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.
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#16. How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.
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#18. It's like his parents are funneling years of their lives into Rusty so he'll get well sooner. But I think if that were possible, more children who got hurt would end up as orphans.
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#20. Feelings are intangible," he said. "You can't see them, can't touch them. You can hurt and no one would know. But physical pain is real. You can see blood and broken bones. It's simple in a way feelings are not, and cutting makes the abstract pain of feelings substantial.
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#21. Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we were before we became who we are.
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#22. Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.
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#23. We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.
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#24. A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of.
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#26. What if I don't give a shit about the world?"
"I'd say that's pretty fucking sad."
"Why?"
"Because the world is so beautiful.
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#27. I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.
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#28. They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.
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#29. But two people can love each other and still not belong together, even if neither of them wanted to admit it.
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#30. I didn't even need to check my phone to know that the universe had shrunk again, and the stars had vanished.
No. They hadn't vanished. I'd given them away to someone who hadn't deserved them, and I'd never get them back.
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#31. Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.
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#33. And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.
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#34. This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.
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#35. The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?
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#37. I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.
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#38. Hospital walls have no memory. They would crumble under the weight of so much suffering. It's better that they forget.
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#39. I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.
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#40. If you can't paint yourself honestly, everything else you paint will be a lie too."
- Diego
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#43. While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.
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#45. I like people, not the parts they have." Diego frowned. "Well, I mean, I definitely like the parts; they're just not why I like the person.
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#47. Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.
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#48. As human beings, we seek meaning in everything. We're so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don't exist.
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#50. If you're ready," I say, wiping my eyes while he blows his nose, "we should head to the funeral home. Do you think they allow dogs in there?
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#54. We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
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#55. The funny thing is,' Calvin said, 'I thought I'd been breathing underwater this whole time, but I guess I've been drowning.
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#56. Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.
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#58. To him, I am the cheap pair of sunglasses you buy on vacation because you know you won't care if you break or lose them
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#61. I know," I say, slapping the ash off my palm. The words rush from my mouth before she says them. It's easier to hear it in my own voice. "I ruined your body. Killed your husband.
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#63. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.
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#66. Sometimes I feel like I'm floating alone in the ocean. Other times I feel like the ocean's in a paper cup.
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#67. We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.
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#68. As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.
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#69. Because there's no way that anyone would give up on a child in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn.
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#70. Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
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#71. I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken.
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#73. Maybe love doesn't require falling after all. Maybe it only requires that you choose to be in it. I wasn't sure what was going to happen with us or how much time we had left, but I wasn't going to waste a second of it.
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#74. Except he and I know that some pain burrows so deep, no narcotic can ever soothe it. It's etched on your bones. It hides in your marrow, like cancer. If the boy survives, the pain is a memory he won't want.
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