Samuel D. Hunter > Quotes

“Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring?
People are amazing.”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“Charlie: These assignments--they don't matter. This course doesn't matter. College doesn't matter. These amazing, honest things you wrote--they matter”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“: In the amazing book Moby Dick by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea. In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small sea-side town and he is sharing a bed with a man named Queequeg, and I felt saddest of all when I read the boring chapters that were only descriptions of whales, because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while.”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“I know this is fun for you. You get to travel around, act superior than everyone else. Plus you get to go home, get married, get some boring job, have tons of kids, and when you die you get your own planet. It all sounds pretty awesome. But, there are other kinds of people. People like Charlie, for whom this amazing plan doesn’t fit. You can’t fit a round peg in a square hole, and you certainly can’t fit a morbidly obese gay peg in a Mormon hole. That came out wrong.”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“This book made me think about my own life, and then it made me feel glad for my—”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“This book made me think about my own life, and then it made me feel
glad for my—”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“I think this is sad because the whale doesn’t have any emotions, and doesn’t know how bad Ahab wants to kill him.
He’s just a poor big animal.”
― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

“I think this is sad because the whale doesn’t have any emotions, and doesn’t know how bad Ahab wants to kill him.
He’s just a poor big animal."

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― Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale