The Never List Quotes

“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existence, trying to smile through tears for fleeting, passing moments here and there-when they can forget what happened to them, maybe even for whole hours at a time? Maybe that's what it is to live.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let the pain wash over you over and over again, until the tide of it drifts back and away, slowly and gradually.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“I realized I had let my own incapacity to recover from my past shrink my world so that it was big enough for only me. It was hitting me now, really for the first time, how being fucked up can turn into a form of narcissism. So that I barely acknowledged that others might need something from me.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“So many times people get carried away by passion, do things they never thought they'd do, and their whole lives change in an instant. Sometimes people are simply insane - mentally ill - and it isn't their fault.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“Fanatics, mystics, and extremists all tended toward irrational and unexpected action.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“I couldn't tell if this was Tracy's attempt at dark humor, or if the world truly did hold more horrors that I hadn't considered. I needed to think about that one later, I decided, and shelved it in some inner recess of my brain.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“I would, and I will. You know my theory. Plunge in. Face the fear head-on. Stay on the offense.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“Plunge in. Face the fear head-on.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“Or is it the case that no one ever truly gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existence, trying to smile through tears for fleeting, passing moments here and there - when they can forget what happened to them, maybe even for whole hours at a time? Maybe that's what it is to live.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“Eu não sabia se os nomes eram das vítimas ou dos criminosos, mas, pensei amargamente, geralmente era o nome dos criminosos que as pessoas costumavam lembrar.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List

“Era como se eu só conseguisse sentir calma quando o pior realmente, finalmente, acontecia.”
― Koethi Zan, The Never List