248 Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

It used to bother me when I read books where the main characters fell in love or became best friends after only knowing each other a short time. I’d complained about it to Tommy once, and he’d said that’s how it happens in real life. Everyone we meet begins as a stranger, so we project onto them who we need them to be until we get to know them. He said we have to fall in love with the idea of a person before we can fall in love with the actual person.

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

It was easier to ignore the problem than to deal with it.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.

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

The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever."I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldn't imagine a better way to die.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

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