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Top 25 Koren Zailckas Quotes (2024 Update)

Koren Zailckas Quote: “I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Sociopaths have no conscience. Narcissists have no empathy. Neither one thinks other people are real. Narcissists think other people are just ego food, tools or extensions of themselves.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “There’s a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of “mind expansion” or “warm healing energy.” I don’t like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Instead of seeing bad in yourself, you perceive it in others. It’s a defense mechanism. One that allows people to go on believing they’re perfect.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “It doesn’t occur to me that alcohol might be unhinging me, that drinking at the rate I am can induce depression, impulsive behaviour, and symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “It’s not rocking the boat, Dad. It’s called communication. You’re allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don’t live in fear of someone else’s reactions. They don’t relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I am aware that somewhere along the line, I’ve subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don’t feel like I am using my full voice.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Why is it so hard to say good-bye to something even when you know it’s a slow-growing cancer?”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Me? I’m just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Sometimes the very loved ones who seem to be causing all our problems are just calling attention to deeper issues the rest of the family would rather ignore.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen’s guards. They’d been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I’d had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Religion seemed as good an escape route as any, plus it was conveniently compatible with psychedelics.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “My demeanor isn’t that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four “manageable” pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “And narcissists don’t love themselves. They hardly have any selves to begin with. They put all their energy into the fake image that they wear like a mask. Only there’s nothing but dead space behind it.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “Crushes weren’t a precursor to love, they were a precursor to having your heart chewed up like Shark Week.”
Koren Zailckas Quote: “I’m finding it takes too much energy to do the things that people do to pass for competent adults.”
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