Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
36 quotes
"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 saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely."
"We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future."
"Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep."
"We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose."
"That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them."
"Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever."
"I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken."
"Popularity is teenage heroin."
"But that's the difference between people and stars. 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."
"How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness."
"Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty."
"History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are."
"It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date."
"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 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."
"That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them."
"No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car."
"There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first."
"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."
"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 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 currency to spend; they're us. Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her."
"I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him."
"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."
"I wasn't sure what was happening between us, but I didn't want it to happen without me."