Top 180 Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Anyone who says time travel is impossible has never had to relive the memories of past traumas or mistakes.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

152. “And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

153. “Knowing leads to caring.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

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

— Shaun David Hutchinson

155. “When we died, the only things we’d leave behind of importance were our deeds. Our corpses would rot and our treasured belongings would wind up in someone else’s house or in a landfill. Our clothes don’t tell the stories of our lives, and no one would remember what kind of dishes we had. But they’d remember the thing we’ve done. Our actions would live on and tell the stories of our lives long after we’d vanished from the earth.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

156. “Like, if people shined, some would shine brighter.”

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157. “Diego looked at me and saw me. No one had seen me since Jesse.”

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158. “Dad rattles the leash he brought in with him, and the noise causes an explosion of doggy joy beside me.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

159. “Depression speaks. It screams. It’s not like actually hearing voices. I know the voice in my head isn’t real and I know that it’s lying, but knowing those things doesn’t make it go away. I still hear it, and it dredges up my worst fears and yells them at me until it drowns out everything else.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

160. “If you’re ready,” I say, wiping my eyes while he blows his nose, “we should head to the funeral home. Do you think they allow dogs in there?”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

161. “A random series of events given meaning by someone desperate enough to prove there’s a design to our lives.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

162. “Our memories and experiences are the lenses through which we see the world, and even though Calvin and I were looking at the same exact lights, I knew we were seeing different things, and I wished I could see them through his eyes.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

163. “He stopped at a Dunkin’ Donuts and bought me an OJ and a bagel. Bribery wasn’t going to make me forgive him, but I couldn’t say no to carbs and juice.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

164. “The trails held a million places for those beady-eyed death noodles to hide.”

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165. “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.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

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

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167. “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.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

168. “I wasn’t going to kill myself, but I wasn’t going to stop dumb luck from taking me out either.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

169. “It was difficult to think about assignments and romantic entanglements when I still had the fate of the world looming over me, but the world ending didn’t mean that our other problems disappeared. We could push them aside for awhile, but we dragged them behind us everywhere we went.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

170. “It terrified me that one day I might not be the person I was; that one day I might not even remember who I used to be. Like I said, maybe it makes me a horrible person, but I think anyone who says they’re not afraid of the future is lying.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

171. “Because hatred is like a fire. It will spread within you, consuming everything indiscriminately. You’ve too much good here” – I tapped his chest – “to let that happen.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

172. “There was nothing funny about the situation, but I laughed anyway. I’d done the same thing during Grandpa Andy’s funeral. Busted out laughing right during Father Diaz’s opening prayer. I apologized to Gamma Evelyn afterward, and she told me it was okay. That life was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

173. “No matter what I accomplished, no matter how hard I worked, I felt like a failure. Nothing I did seemed good enough. I felt ugly, I felt stupid, I felt talentless. And those were the good days. On the bad days I prayed for the pain to stop. On the worst days I’d drive fast and reckless, hoping to spin out and crash and die.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

174. “If he dies, I’ll never be able to tell him that I can’t stand the thought of looking up and not seeing him near.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

175. “We weapons are not blessed with a historical perspective on the lives we enter. We exist in the moment. We sense deeply the searing “now.” And this boy’s now is filled with mines and monsters.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

176. “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

177. “The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

178. “Gun wounds are not subtle or deceptive, for more than anything, my kind is honest, even in dishonest hands. We speak in plain and simple terms. There is nothing ambiguous about a gun.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

179. “We never truly know what we’re capable of until we’re put into a hopeless situation.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

180. “The universe rarely gives us what we want. Sometimes we must content ourselves with what we’re given.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson