Quotes from book

Choke

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”

“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

“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.”

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”

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

“Ignorance was bliss.”

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”

“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”

“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

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

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”