Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are The Ants Quotes

No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.

I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.

How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.

As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.

We're not words...we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

I wasn't sure what was happening between us, but I didn't want it to happen without me.

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 hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.

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.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

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.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

It's a date.""It's a cookie.""It's a cookie date.

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

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

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

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