{"author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["discovery","life","we-are-the-ants","world"],"id":663,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["chaos","death","destiny","existence","existentialism"],"id":2841,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","bullying","death","depression","history","life","loss","love","milkshakes","space","stars","suicide","teen","ya"],"id":13152,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","death","love","space","stars","teens","ya"],"id":22219,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","bullying","death","depression","history","life","loss","love","space","stars","suicide","teen","ya"],"id":23020,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["lgbt","romance"],"id":33411,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"It's a date.'It's a cookie.'It's a cookie date.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","bullying","cookies","death","depression","history","life","loss","love","space","stars","suicide","teen","ya"],"id":44581,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","bullying","death","history","life","loss","love","space","stars","teen","ya"],"id":46106,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["lgbtq","lgbtq-literature","memories","memory","pain"],"id":47476,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Popularity is teenage heroin.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","death","gravity","love","popularity","teens","ya"],"id":66353,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}