Chuck Palahniuk: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 4)

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”

“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”