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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83cacf3 | Minnesota! It smelled like raspberries and sunlight and tender grass. It was summer and everything was more beautiful than any picture she had carried with her....There had never been a place in the world as beautiful as Minnesota. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 8a50eff | What now is not just a panic-stricken question tossed into a dark unknown. What now can also be our joy. It is a declaration of possibility, of promise, of chance. It acknowledges that our future is open, that we may well do more than anyone expected of us, that at every point in our development we are still striving to grow. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 5d7e179 | as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice. | waiting | Ann Patchett | |
| 467868d | Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. | russians | Ann Patchett | |
| ba15a2b | On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator) | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d3a97e3 | It sounds as if you'd like to be God. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7852556 | Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| dbaff93 | It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the r.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 421f3a0 | Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 44693ec | The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bd7da23 | It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1b64a80 | After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care. | fight-club relaxed | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| dc230ee | These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands. | mouth words | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b1be759 | The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor's ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 976ca12 | At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. "The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper." -- | page-71 | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a3352d2 | Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight. Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys. Death will commence in five. Five, four. Around her, a parasitic life spray paints her heart. Four, three. Three, two. Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curled lining of her own throat. Death to commence in three, two. Moonlight shines in through the open mout... h. Prepare for the last breath, now. Evac.. | life | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d2ff2bc | Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.' | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 12f9b93 | It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe, | inspriational self-centered universe | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 678f492 | The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 646ea92 | It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a2c46d5 | The answer is there is no answer | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0f00c88 | the girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0b2ee0d | You can't kiss someone who has no lips. Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 24df252 | Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. "My point being," Brandy says, "is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands," Brandy says." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| df79501 | A blush only reminds me how blood is just under the surface of everything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7c2d4cc | My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7a7b3c8 | Completely and totally, permanently and without hope, forever and ever I love Brandy Alexander. And that's enough. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 22d91de | When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8301324 | Honey, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a663616 | She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0290e61 | Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 754ff8d | How can I not laugh? I'm already dead. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b756401 | That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 584dd9b | You just don't know what I've been through this past year. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4672eb4 | The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 37912bf | Most everything else I know is from the messes these people leave behind. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e5a41f | Call me the voice of experience. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f858c66 | Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6912177 | Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive....My regular little dress rehearsal...the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 04d0625 | On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c53fc8f | The mistakes we make in our youth," she said solemnly, "we pay for with the rest of our lives." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 22fae21 | Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a1b70c6 | She'd never trusted her own natural impulses and instincts Among her greatest fears was the possibility that she might never discover and develop her deepest talents and intuitions. Her special gifts. Her life would be wasted in pursuing the goals set for her by other people. Instead, she wanted to reclaim a power and authority - a primitive, irresistible force - that transcended gender roles. She dreamed of wielding a raw magic that predat.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a9bdadf | The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death. This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick. Only God has the righ.. | god life peace suicide | Chuck Palahniuk |