Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

I Am Jack's Medulla Oblongata I Am Jill's Nipple I Am Jack's Colon I Am Jack's Raging Bile Duct I Am Jack's Cold Sweat I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise I Am Jack's Inflamed Sense of Rejection I Am Jack's Smirking Revenge I Am Jack's Broken Heart

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

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

I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)

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

and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

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

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

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.

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.