Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 17)

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked…”

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

“If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.”

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

“the world is the cradle and your trap.”

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

“There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”

“It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.”

“If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”

“The photographer in my head says:
Give me peace.
Flash.
Give me release.
Flash.”

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

“Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.”

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”