Shaun Hutchinson > Shaun's Quotes

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I want to live and work alone. If we get married, do I have to live with you? No, he said. Will you marry me? Do I have to act like a wife? I don’t really want to be a wife. No, you don’t need to be a wife, he said. Will you marry me? If we get married, will we be able to sleep with other people? Yep, he said. Will you marry me? Can I maintain total control of my life? I need total control of my life. Yes, darling. I’m not trying to control you. At all. Will you marry me? I probably don’t want kids. That’s fine. I already have three. They’re great. Will you marry me? If I marry you and it doesn’t work, can we just get divorced? Sure, he said brightly.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Chaos is an excuse for people who don't have the patience to see the patterns.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“If death can cry, maybe we all have a chance for redemption.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Except he and I know that some pain burrows so deep, no narcotic can ever soothe it. It's etched on your bones. It hides in your marrow, like cancer. If the boy survives, the pain is a memory he won't want.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“It's like his parents are funneling years of their lives into Rusty so he'll get well sooner. But I think if that were possible, more children who got hurt would end up as orphans.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Because there's no way that anyone would give up on a child in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Sometimes I think of myself as a savior of the lost, a caretaker to the found.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“Hospital walls have no memory. They would crumble under the weight of so much suffering. It's better that they forget.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“It 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 Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“I'm not sure if the Bible is a real book written by God or just a collection of stories for people who need help putting their hearts back together, but it's comforting, and I try not to think about it.”
― Shaun Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley