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Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?

If a kid looks like he doesnt give a shit, its not because he doesnt believe in himself anymore; its because no one else believes in him.

I held on to the hope that one day I would grow up and have all the answers, just like my parents. As I look over at Arnold and then at Father Mike, I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of lifes many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.

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.

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.

Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like Id already won.

Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.

“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.”

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

“As human beings, were 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.”

“Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why loves only demand is that we fall.”

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

“Popularity is teenage heroin.”

“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”

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