Shaun David Hutchinson Quotes

“The boxes that are supposed to help us understand one another ultimately wedge us further apart. Even worse is that we rage against the artificial divisions the boxes create, claim that we’re more complex and complicated than how we’re defined by others, and then turn around and stuff the next person we meet into one and tape the lid shut. And then, as if the indignity of life isn’t enough, when a person dies, we cram what’s left of them into one final box for eternity.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face

“I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“The nerd in me that needs to understand everything is dying to drive July to a lab and cut off pieces of her to look at under a microscope to see if I can figure out what’s keeping her alive, and the poet in me wants to ask her a million questions about being dead so that I can understand how she sees the world and what the stars look like through eyes that once saw what’s on the other side of life. But July doesn’t need a nerd or a poet. She needs a friend, and I suppose that unenviable job has fallen to me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“Death is as normal and digestion. People move through life the way food moves through our bodies. Their natural usefulness is extracted along the way to help enrich the world, and when they have nothing left to give, they’re eliminated. Much like our bodies would clog up with excrement if we didn’t defecate, the world would do the same if we didn’t die.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“Two days after Christmas I stood in the shower thinking about the Salem witch trials.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe