Shaun David Hutchinson

“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”

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

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”

“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 and past, possibility and memory. They were beautiful. "I never knew there were so many," I whispered. 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. Out deaths will mean nothing to them."I feel so small." No one replied. I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the fist time, whether they could see me, too.”

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

“Knowing leads to caring.”

“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.”

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

“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.”

“It begins when he’s still a man in a suit, doing the kinds of boring things that men in suits do. The things that no one writes about because they know that boys don’t really have nightmares about clowns or three-eyed tentacled beasts that rise from deep within volcanoes. When boys wake up screaming in the night, it’s because they know that, one day, they’ll have to grow into men who wear suits and spend their days doing boring things that cause them to rot from within, so their skin withers and blackens and cracks, leaking out their juices until they finally lie decaying and putrid, forgotten by a world that deemed them unworthy of remembering.It begins there because it’s important to know that a superhero with no past began as a man with no future.”

“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.”

“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”

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

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

“Popularity is teenage heroin.”

“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.”

“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”

“Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.”

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

“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”