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Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

Depression isnt a war you win. Its a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. Its one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

Were not words, Henry, were people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

Thats the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you cant live in them.

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

Popularity is teenage heroin.

Knowing leads to caring.

Dont get so focused on where youre going that you forget the people youre travelling with. Theres no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

But thats the difference between people and stars. A stars light still shines even if theres no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

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.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesnt have to be who we are.

Its a date.Its a cookie.Its a cookie date.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadnt magically solved our problems,

The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever.I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldnt imagine a better way to die.

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. Thats what I believed.

Thats the problem with memories: you can visit them but you cant live with them.