248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

Two days after Christmas I stood in the shower thinking about the Salem witch trials.

Maybe some doors that slam shut behind you and can’t ever be opened again aren’t the scariest things in the world after all. Maybe some doors are better off closed. That way we can focus on the ones still open in front of us.

We’re not words... we’re people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

We’ve all got secrets, you know? We’ve all got things about ourselves we hate and these dark places inside of us we’re terrified to show people. We live in constant fear that someone is going to discover the rotting corpses we keep buried in those dark places, and that when they do, they’ll despise us for them... Being in love with someone is knowing that no matter what you show them, no matter what you’ve done, they’ll never reject you.

I asked my father once why falling in love in such a big deal, and he told me that one day in love is worth a hundred days not in love. Maybe it’s true. I don’t know. I hope it’s true.

Knowing leads to caring.

That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.

The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was filled with that wonderful book smell that anyone who’s ever even been near a book will recognize. It’s more than the smell of paper; it’s the smell of the high seas and adventure and far off worlds. It’s the smell of a billion billion worlds, each a portal to somewhere new.

In this bubble of time, I wasn’t a freak and he wasn’t a bully, and we could be friends without anyone knowing, and at least for now, that was enough.