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“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, death, depression, life, loss, love, space, suicide, teen, ya

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“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, bullying, death, depression, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, suicide, teen, ya

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#3

“Same rules apply.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

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#4

“Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.”
― Irvine Welsh, Glue

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#5

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: art, creativity, philosophy

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#6

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

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#7

“I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading”
― Irvine Welsh, The Blade Artist

tags: nihilism

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#8

“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, death, gravity, love, teens, ya

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#9

“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: life, universe, we-are-the-ants

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#10

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#11

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#12

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#13

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

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#14

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

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#15

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
― William S. Burroughs

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#16

“Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

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#17

“Maybe the only way to really start over is to tear everything apart.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

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#18

“History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, bullying, death, history, life, loss, love, space, stars, teen, ya

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#19

“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, death, gravity, love, teens, ya

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#20

“The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

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#21

“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, We Are the Ants

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#22

“They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

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#23

“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe

tags: friendship, inspirational, truth

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#24

“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.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: chaos, death, destiny, existence, existentialism

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#25

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

tags: aliens, death, gravity, kiss, love, teens, universe, ya

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#26

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#27

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#28

“Das Leben ist kein Nullsummenspiel. Es schuldet einem nichts, und die Dinge passieren, wie sie passieren. Manchmal gerecht, so dass alles einen Sinn ergibt, manchmal so ungerecht, dass man an allem zweifelt. Ich zog dem Schicksal die Maske vom Gesicht und fand darunter nur den Zufall.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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#29

“I couldn’t have expressed it clearly at the time, but in my heart I sensed I’d lost my way. The problem was that I didn’t know when and where. I didn’t even know which way it was I’d lost.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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#30

“As I walked into the garden, I nodded at my brother. A difficult childhood is like an invisible enemy, I thought. You never know when it will strike.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

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