248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

What Dante and I had through e-mail was perfect because it existed in a quantum state. Every possibility was still on the table. The moment we met, the possibilities would collapse and lock into place, and that scared me so badly that my stomach churned and I felt like I was going to puke.

We have to watch Nana’s life slipping away from her like a forgotten word. I thought I understood what’s happening to her, but this isn’t like being robbed a penny at a time. Memories aren’t currency to spend; they’re us. Age isn’t stealing from my grandmother; it’s slowly unwinding her.

The constant noise of our own personal problems drowns out what’s happening in the rest of the world. We get caught up in our day-to-day struggles and can’t see that everyone is fighting their own battles.

Standing at the top of the world, everything I saw was everything, and maybe that was enough.

No doesn’t mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

The sound in my ears narrowed until all I could hear was that psychotic cackle. I felt something inside me break in that moment. It wasn’t just what had happened that day; it was as if all the preceding days, all the hate I’d been hoarding and the guilt I’d buried, erupted, breaking my ability to contain them any longer.

Don’t get so focused on where you’re going that you forget the people you’re travelling with. There’s no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

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.

She’s the gristle stuck between Time’s teeth, and I love her for it.