01c. 1978 ADDepression 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1978 ADI saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
03c. 1978 ADWe remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
04c. 1978 ADDreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
05c. 1978 ADWe're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
06c. 1978 ADThat's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
07c. 1978 ADBecause you can only die once but you can suffer forever.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
08c. 1978 ADI was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
11c. 1978 ADDon'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 / quote ↗
12c. 1978 ADBut 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.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
13c. 1978 ADHow 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.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
15c. 1978 ADHistory is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
17c. 1978 ADBonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
18c. 1978 ADThe 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.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
19c. 1978 ADJust the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
20c. 1978 ADThat's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
21c. 1978 ADNo doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
22c. 1978 ADThere's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
23c. 1978 ADIt 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1978 ADIt 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.Shaun David Hutchinson / quote ↗
