Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 20)

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

“you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?”

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

“The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.”

“Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.”

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.”

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

“This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.”

“What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.”