The Passenger Quotes

“Old memories aren't what keeps us going even in the best of times. It's making new ones, truly living, that pushes us forward.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“for the first time in his life wished he'd gone into mathematics or physics or wizardry.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“when you got a job to do, it’s better to get it done than to stand around fearing it. ”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“Living like this forever was something my mind just wasn't equipped to handle.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“realize how much effort it took for human beings to impose their will on the world now that the gears had stopped turning. Nature, the other hand, was equally (if not more) determined to have her way.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“My body was prone to doing odd things, after all. Like dying and then going for a stroll. Mom always said my priorities were wrong.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“The justifications and sad logic in my head were defense mechanisms, used to ignore the brightness of the truth: she was suffering, dying, and I watched it happen like some macabre reality show.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“they were dead people. Ones who forgot that death is supposed to be a state of motionless finality.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“The day scraped by like a hundred pieces of jagged metal slowly pulled across broken asphalt. The slow, unchanging pace of it was maddening, nails on a chalkboard for hours without end.”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger

“Was this how crazy people felt? Was my body disturbed by the laughing, crying, screaming voice inside of it? I was that voice. The thought led me down a rabbit hole of possibilities, and my internal guffaws cut short when I came to the next logical question: Was I insane?”
― James N. Cook, The Passenger