Chuck Palahniuk idézet

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“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.”

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

“Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.”

“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”

“You have to jump into disaster with both feet.”

“This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.”

“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

“There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.”

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”

“If there's a trick to doing a job you hate… Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.”

“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”

“In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring
shape-outlines we have to blink against.”

“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”

“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”

“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”

“Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.”

“Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.”