Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.

When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

What never failed to boggle Daisy was how Judy Garland had only just arrived in this glorious colorful place and she immediately wanted to run back to some boring pig farm. The fact that everyone else loved the film...what did that say about people? It says that most people can tolerate being over the rainbow for only about thirty seconds.

You count the facts and it's so depressing. I can only eat baby food. My best friend screwed my fiancé. My fiancé almost stabbed me to death. I've set fire to a house and been pointing a rifle at innocent people all night. My brother I hate has come back from the dead to upstage me. I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already.

You wake up at SeaTac. I study the people on the laminated airline seat card. A woman floats in the ocean, her brown hair spread out behind her, her seat cushion clutched to her chest. The eyes are wide open, but the woman doesn't smile or frown. In another picture, people calm as Hindu cows reach up from their seats toward oxygen masks sprung out of the ceiling. This must be an emergency. Oh.

It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.

The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.

There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list.

Some want to die but are just looking for my permission. Some want to die and just need a little encouragement. A little push.

Ev­ery­one else I could call is dead.

I have no idea where they're go­ing with this.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

We all live by different clocks and calendars.

Give me courage. Flash. Give me heart. Flash.

The Prayer for a Parking Space Oh, divine and merciful God, History is without equal for how much I will adore You, when You give me today, a place to park. For You are the provider. And You are the source. From You all good is delivered. Within You all is found. In Your care will I find respite. With Your guidance, will I find peace. To stop, to rest, to idle, to park. These are Yours to give me. This is what I ask. Amen.

People are all looking for that, a hand to hold. Reassurance. The promise that everything will be all right.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.

To be or not to be. God's gift to animals is they don't get a choice.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution'' Tyler whispered, ''toward tragedy and dissolution

Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind.