“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.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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