248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

He was mine before he was yours, but he’d never given me all of himself. Then you came along and got everything I ever wanted.

Now that I had something to lose all I could think about was holding onto the thing I’d found.

Wake up, go to school, go home. Repeat until the world ends.

It’s impossible to let go of the people we love. Pieces of them remain embedded inside of us like shrapnel. Every breath causes those fragments to burrow through our muscles, nearer to our hearts. And we think the pain will kill us, but it won’t. Eventually, scar tissue forms around those twisted splinters like cocoons. They remain part of us, but slowly hurt less.

There’s no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

Sometimes I feel like I’m floating alone in the ocean. Other times I feel like the ocean’s in a paper cup.

Neatness is the trademark of a boring mind.

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

I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light. God surely meant for humans to live like that. He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time.