Top 180 Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “It happens in the dark space between blinks, in the void between breaths.”

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53. “The funny thing is,′ Calvin said, ‘I thought I’d been breathing underwater this whole time, but I guess I’ve been drowning.”

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54. “Death is as normal and digestion. People move through life the way food moves through our bodies. Their natural usefulness is extracted along the way to help enrich the world, and when they have nothing left to give, they’re eliminated. Much like our bodies would clog up with excrement if we didn’t defecate, the world would do the same if we didn’t die.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

55. “The past is a cold place. No one deserves to be trapped there, no matter how terrible you believe your sins to be.”

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56. “Sometimes, Henry, remembering hurts too much.”

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57. “What are you talking about? I love my talking Gollum doll. Nothing says best-friendship like an emaciated demon who hides under your pillow snarling, ‘My precious!’ even after you remove his batteries and drown him in a bucket of water.”

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58. “As human beings, we’re born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.”

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59. “Soon, the whispers would solidify and their version of the truth would be the only one that mattered.”

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60. “There’s an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.”

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61. “This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. 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.”

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62. “We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.”

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63. “He was part of our family, and we weren’t wrong for loving him.” Part.”

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64. “Love is gradual and sneaky. It grows like weeds between the cracks of a hundred average moments.”

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65. “They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.”

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66. “Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we were before we became who we are. He said that’s why people love The Catcher in the Rye when they’re teenagers, but fall out of love with it as adults. We’re all Holden Caulfield at fifteen, but when we grow up we want to be Atticus Finch.”

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67. “Her question was a knife that slid neatly between my ribs and left me bleeding.”

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

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69. “You spend your life hoarding memories against the day when you’ll lack the energy to go out and make new ones, because that’s the comfort of old age.”

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70. “I know there are some who say that because we shared a home and DNA with Kirby, my parents and I deserve to be arrested, tortured, or even killed. At.”

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

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72. “Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I’d already won.”

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73. “He didn’t kill himself because of a single overwhelming problem; he died from a thousand tiny wounds.”

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74. “Sitting beside me, holding my hand under the table.”

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75. “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.”

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76. “But I do believe that every single thing we’ve done leads to everything we do, and that it’s kind of pointless to regret the past when it’s the cause of our present.”

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77. “People spend a lot of time thinking about the planets that might orbit all those stars, but they ignore the worlds inside themselves.”

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78. “You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have.”

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79. “Popularity is teenage heroin.”

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80. “The only fear a guy felt when he asked out a girl was fear that she might reject him. He didn’t worry that she might gather a few of her friends, surprise him afterward in a dark parking lot on his way home from work, tie him up, torture and beat him, and then leave him to die. He never had to worry that, even if she said yes, they’d have to pretend to only be friends when they were in public, because if they didn’t someone might spit on them or call them names or attack them.”

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81. “Having choices is the problem. Everything would be easier if someone told me what to do: push the button, stop seeing Marcus, get over Jesse. The problem with choices is that I usually make the wrong ones.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “Feelings are intangible,” he said. “You can’t see them, can’t touch them. You can hurt and no one would know. But physical pain is real. You can see blood and broken bones. It’s simple in a way feelings are not, and cutting makes the abstract pain of feelings substantial.”

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86. “Only weirdos are happy all the time.”

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87. “Doodling the variations of your combined names on the cover of your notebook.”

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88. “Age isn’t stealing from my grandmother; it’s slowly unwinding her.”

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89. “You are who you are, Fadil. And it’s okay if you’re not sure what that means yet. Anyone who says they’ve got it all figured out at sixteen is a liar, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

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90. “Sometimes coming out isn’t about us. It’s not fair that we have to carry the emotional burden of sharing our secret and making sure the person we’re coming out to is okay, but we make concessions for the people we care about. Besides, I may have run the scenarios for this conversation but my mom had been running scenarios about my entire life since the day she had learned she was pregnant with me.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “Life is not fair. And if life’s not fair, then what’s the point? Why bother with the rules? Why bother with life at all? Maybe that’s the conclusion that Jessie came to. Maybe he woke up one morning and decided he simply didn’t want to play a game against people who refused to obey the rules.”

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93. “Sometimes I wish I’d find a zipper on the back of my head so I could unzip my skin and find the real me underneath.”

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94. “Maybe hell is seeing the lost loved painted over the faces of the strangers we meet.”

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95. “You can’t shake hands with a clenched first,′ Sayegh said.”

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96. “Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That’s what I believed.”

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

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98. “I don’t even remember what was so funny; I only remember thinking I’d suffocate before I stopped laughing.”

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99. “The boxes that are supposed to help us understand one another ultimately wedge us further apart. Even worse is that we rage against the artificial divisions the boxes create, claim that we’re more complex and complicated than how we’re defined by others, and then turn around and stuff the next person we meet into one and tape the lid shut. And then, as if the indignity of life isn’t enough, when a person dies, we cram what’s left of them into one final box for eternity.”

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100. “Part of me wonders if the sluggers send pervy pics back to their home planet for their alien buddies to mock. Check out this mutant we caught. They call it a teenager. It’s got five arms, but one is tiny and deformed. It’s not really deformed, I swear.”

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