We Are The Ants Quotes

“We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
― 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

“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“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

“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

“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

“should i tear my heart out now?
everything i feel returns to you
somehow”
― Sufjan Stevens

“A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe

“I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“I'll never really know why you took your own life. I hope you knew that I loved you so fucking much. Maybe we don't matter to the universe, Jesse Franklin, but you mattered to me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants