Quotes from book

Choke

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked…”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

“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.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”

“Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.”

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

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”