Top 180 Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Now that I had something to lose all I could think about was holding onto the thing I’d found.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

102. “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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103. “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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104. “Life is life. It happens, it goes on. Eventually, it ends, but other lives continue, new ones begin. That’s just the way of it. My life would keep going on until the day it didn’t, and I could either make the best of it or waste it wishing for what I didn’t and might never have.”

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105. “You spend your life hoarding memories against the day you’ll lack the energy to go out and make new ones, because that’s the comfort of the old age. The ability to look back at your life and know that you left your mark on the world. But I’m losing my memories, it’s like someone’s broken into my piggy bank and is robbing me one penny at a time. It’s happening so slowly, I can hardly tell what’s missing.”

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106. “The farther we are from one another, the further we live in each other’s pasts.”

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107. “My life would keep going on until the day it didn’t, and I could either make the best of it or waste it wishing for what I didn’t and might never have.”

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108. “Charlie was quiet until we pulled up to the front of CHS. He stopped me when I tried to hop out of the Jeep. “If you want people to treat you normal, you have to act normal.” A few of the other students being dropped off cast stealthy glances in my direction. Space Boy was back for their amusement. “I never asked to be treated normal, Charlie. I just want to be left alone.”

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109. “I’m saying you’re acting like a jerk, and I don’t want to hang out with a jerk.” “Are you breaking up with me?” he asked. Katelyn let out a frustrated noise. “You don’t get it at all, do you?”

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110. “A star’s light still shines even if there’s no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.”

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

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112. “Nobody wins playing fair.”

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113. “How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?”

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114. “I tried to think of the right thing to say, but sometimes the right thing to say is nothing.”

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115. “Maybe the only way to really start over is to tear everything apart.”

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116. “I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.”

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117. “But that’s not even the worst part. What’s really going to send you running over the side of the nearest bridge is that none of it matters. I’ll die, you’ll die, we’ll all die, and the things we’ve done, the choices we’ve made, will amount to nothing.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

118. “That’s how life is; it just goes on.”

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119. “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.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “I like people, not the parts they have.” Diego frowned. “Well, I mean, I definitely like the parts; they’re just not why I like the person.”

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122. “The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?”

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123. “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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124. “It’s like I keep waiting to look in the mirror and recognize the person staring back.”

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125. “It was chance. A random series of events given meaning by somone desperate to prove there’s a design to our lives. That the minutes and hours between our birth and death are ore than frantic moments of chaos. Because if that’s all they are – if there are no rules governing our lives – then our entire existence is a meaningless farce.”

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126. “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.”

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127. “We had to drive to the past so that we could face the future.”

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128. “But the thing about depression is that it doesn’t create bad thoughts, it amplifies and distorts them. Depression doesn’t make me look in the mirror and see a girl who’s overweight and has too-wide hips and pudgy cheeks. Those thoughts are already there. Depression just cranks up the volume on them so loud that I can’t hear anything else.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “Falling in love is about hormones and pheromones and powerful emotions that overwhelm our better judgement. Staying in love requires time and effort and knowledge and trust that has to be earned over the course of lifetimes. Falling in love is the illusion. Staying in love is the real miracle.”

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131. “The victory Mark had been feeling swelled for a moment, crescendoing into a strange sort of joy. Kirby looked defeated. No, more than that. He looked broken. The expression in Kirby’s eyes dragged Mark’s joy down with it. The.”

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132. “I wasn’t sure what was happening between us, but I didn’t want it to happen without me.”

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133. “But that’s life. One long tunnel. There are lights along the way. Sometimes they feel spread farther apart than others, but they’re there. And when you find one, it’s okay to stand under it for a while to catch your breath before marching back into the dark.”

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134. “That’s the problem with living in a world where everyone was assumed to be heterosexual until proven otherwise.”

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

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136. “Teddy complained to the camp leader that his pack was too heavy, the camp leader mocked him.”

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

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138. “Possessions are distractions.”

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139. “How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.”

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140. “My mouth fell open. “Is this real life? You’re giving me your dog?” He chuckled. “Yeah. My dog that was supposed to be the consolation prize when our parents forced me to go back to public school. My dog that sleeps in your room and that you walk and feed every day.”

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

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142. “I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.”

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143. “Instead of being able to go out and buy a book about a closeted gay kid who’s scared of becoming a stereotype while coming to terms with being gay that could have helped me understand what I was going through, I’ needed to write my own.”

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144. “You have to write about yourself before you can write about anything else.”

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145. “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.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “We make choices. We make bad choices. But we still deserve the right to choose.”

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148. “I know,” I say, slapping the ash off my palm. The words rush from my mouth before she says them. It’s easier to hear it in my own voice. “I ruined your body. Killed your husband.”

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149. “The moment we forget that even the evil among us are still human is the moment we forget that even the most human among us are still evil.”

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150. “Life’s truest horror is a door that slams shut that can never be opened again.”

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