Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Kalbime bir b?çak saplanm?? gibi hissediyordum ve ba??mdan geçen tüm olaylara raÄŸmen hâlâ incitilmek için sonsuz ve engellenemez bir potansiyelim olduÄŸunu keÅŸfetmiÅŸtim.

Three weeks without sleep, and everything becomes an out-of-body experience.

His eyes the bright brown of July Fourth sunlight through a tall mug of root beer. Quite the American specimen. A classic face of such symmetrical proportions, the exactly balanced type of face one dreams of looking down to find smiling and eager between one's inner thighs. Still, that's the trouble with only a single glance at any star on the horizon.

Nevertheless, here it is: my Hideous Admission. I'll fess up and come clean. I'm out of the closet. I'm dead. Now don't hold it against me.

How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.

But I don't want to go back. Not yet. Just because. Because every once in a while, somebody brings me my lunch tray and my meds and he has a black eye or his forehead is swollen with stitches, and he says: We miss you Mr. Durden. Or somebody with a broken nose pushes a mop past me and whispers: Everything's going according to the plan. Whispers We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world. Whispers We look forward to getting you back.

Marla shouts to the police that the girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways

Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever.

These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon.

By that she means fully erect. Condom-ready.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

The way she looks right now, you have to think about multiple car pile-ups. Imagine two bloodmobiles coliding head on. The way she looks, you'd have to think of mass graves to even log thirty seconds in the saddle. Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.

Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.

Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.

At the end of the day, your life is just a story. If you don't like the direction it's going, change it. Rewrite it. When you rewrite a sentence, you erase it and start over until you get it right. Yes, it's a little more complicated with a life, but the principle is the same. And remember, don't let anyone ever tell you that your revisions are not the truth.

She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.

Rachel hadn't invented the dangers of toxoplasmosis; she'd gone online and built an airtight case. This wasn't crazy talk. Neurobiologists had linked T. gondii to suicide and the onset of schizophrenia. All caused by exposure to cat poop. Some studies even suggested that the toxo brain parasites chemically coerced people to adopt more cats. Those crazy cat ladies were actually being controlled by an infection of single-cell invaders. The