15 Quotes about Life from We Are the Ants (by Shaun David Hutchinson)

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We Are the Ants quotes about life

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


Bonding over illegal drugs hadn’t magically solved our problems

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


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.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


It’s a date.””It’s a cookie.””It’s a cookie date.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


There’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, We Are the Ants


We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


I was surrounded by heaven. The sun, the moon, the earth, and all those living stars. They wen’t static like in pictures taken from impossibly far away- they breathed, they glowed. They were future and past, possibility and memory. They were beautiful. “I never knew there were so many, ” I whispered. We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Out deaths will mean nothing to them.”I feel so small.” No one replied. I wondered as I watched the stars, really seeing them for the fist time, whether they could see me, too.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


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


That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


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


Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

— Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants


We’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, We Are the Ants