We Are All Completely Fine Quotes

“Pretending to be normal made life so difficult.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“..."I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless—I think that’s inarguable. It’s just that the constant awareness of its pointlessness is exhausting. I wouldn’t mind being oblivious again. I’d love to feel the wind in my face and think, just for minute, that I’m not going to crash into the rocks.”

“You’re saying you’d like to be happy.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“We’re different from other people, she’d said. We only feel at home when we’re a little bit afraid.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it’s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally only one remains. The Last Boy, the Last Girl. There is a final battle. The Last One suffers great wounds, but in the final moment vanquishes the monster. Only later does he or she recognize that this is the monster’s final trick; the scars run deep, and the awareness of the truth grows like an infection. The Last One knows that the monster isn’t dead, only sent to the other side. There it waits until it can slip into the mundane world again. Perhaps next time it will be a knife-wielding madman, or a fanged beast, or some nameless tentacled thing. It’s the monster with a thousand faces. The details matter only to the next victims.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“Everything beautiful hurts.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“Was it possible that they could both be so unknown to themselves?”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“He was upright, so was that holding up?”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“We're different from other people, she'd said. We Only feel at home when we're a little bit afraid.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“Also, I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless--I think that's inarguable. It's just that the constant awareness of its pointlessness is exhausting.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“They passed a door that was ajar, but behind it was a wall of floor-to-ceiling crap like a dead end in a closed-environment game level.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine

“Drive safe, dress safe, live safe. Retreat to the safest place of all.”
― Daryl Gregory, We Are All Completely Fine