Quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

“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 ...”

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

“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 curren...”

“Sometimes when a star collapses, it becomes a fiery supernova, but other times the core density is so great that it quietly consumes itself, forming a black hole, its gravitational pull so terrible...”

“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.”

“I was surrounded by heaven. The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. They wen't static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away- they breathed, they glowed. They were future...”

“Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.”

“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”

“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.”

“We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.”

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

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

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

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

“Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.”

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

“While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.”

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

“If a kid looks like he doesn't give a shit, it's not because he doesn't believe in himself anymore; it's because no one else believes in him.”