248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

We have to face the possibility that we won’t all live long enough to lose our hair or become those crotchety old folks who yell at dumb kids like us. Good people die and bad people don’t always get what they deserve. Death stops being this abstract concept that happens to other people and becomes something that could happen to the people we love. Or even to us.

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.

Life isn’t fair. That is what we tell kids when they’re young and learn that there are no rules, or rather that there are but only suckers play by them. We din’t reassure them or give them tools to help cope with the reality of life; we simply pat them on the back and send them on their way, burdened with the knowledge that nothing they do will ever really matter. It can’t if life’s not fair.

Maybe the only way to really start over is to tear everything apart.

And yet, despite being faced with so much hardship and pain, we continue to live. We continue to struggle and fight for our place in the world. We continue to try even though we know we’re going to lose. That’s the real miracle, not me.

It was the feeling of finally finding a puzzle piece that fit into place. Of bursting through the surface of the water and taking the breath that had been burning in my lungs. Of remembering the word that’d been on the tip of my tongue for decades. This was the feeling I’d been missing all those years.

The victory Mark had been feeling swelled for a moment, crescendoing into a strange sort of joy. Kirby looked defeated. No, more than that. He looked broken. The expression in Kirby’s eyes dragged Mark’s joy down with it. The.

When the days are darkest, dear, you latch on to happiness wherever you find it.