248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

But the thing about depression is that it doesn’t create bad thoughts, it amplifies and distorts them. Depression doesn’t make me look in the mirror and see a girl who’s overweight and has too-wide hips and pudgy cheeks. Those thoughts are already there. Depression just cranks up the volume on them so loud that I can’t hear anything else.

He was part of our family, and we weren’t wrong for loving him.” Part.

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That’s what I believed.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn’t have to be who we are.

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.

My mouth fell open. “Is this real life? You’re giving me your dog?” He chuckled. “Yeah. My dog that was supposed to be the consolation prize when our parents forced me to go back to public school. My dog that sleeps in your room and that you walk and feed every day.

People don’t really change; they just find something else to give their life meaning.

A random series of events given meaning by someone desperate enough to prove there’s a design to our lives.

Age isn’t stealing from my grandmother; it’s slowly unwinding her.