248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

I tried to think of the right thing to say, but sometimes the right thing to say is nothing.

Love isn’t obvious until you’re in it. It’s not a punch in the face that leaves you reeling. Love is gradual and sneaky. It grows like weeds between the cracks of a hundred average moments.

You can’t fight gravity. Gravity is love. Love requires us to fall.

Instead of being able to go out and buy a book about a closeted gay kid who’s scared of becoming a stereotype while coming to terms with being gay that could have helped me understand what I was going through, I’ needed to write my own.

Grief is quiet. Grief is a strangled cry. Tears we hide. A scream in a vacuum where sound doesn’t carry. And though we try to share it, grief is ultimately a burden each of us must carry alone.

What are you talking about? I love my talking Gollum doll. Nothing says best-friendship like an emaciated demon who hides under your pillow snarling, ‘My precious!’ even after you remove his batteries and drown him in a bucket of water.

I’ve never understood how doctors can smoke. It’s like a firefighter deliberately disabling the smoke detectors in her house and then setting fire to her couch.

People spend a lot of time thinking about the planets that might orbit all those stars, but they ignore the worlds inside themselves.

It happens in the dark space between blinks, in the void between breaths.