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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.Chuck Palahniuk
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To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.James Herbert
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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.Chuck Palahniuk
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You make me crazy in all the best ways, woman. You always have. I’m only me when I’m with you.Cybill Cain
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He was so big he made my sofa seem more like a loveseat. He was so at ease with himself and his body that I found it hard to reconcile him with the awkward teenager that had stolen my heart. He was so fucking beautiful, it took my breath away.Cybill Cain
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Have you come to return my pussy?” I shook my head, sure the reception must be bad. “ Huh?” “ My cat. You stole my cat yesterday. Have you come to return him?Cybill Cain
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You’re off the bed again, ” he growled at me, in a deep sexy tone that went right to the ache between my thighs that had been growing since he’d knocked on my door. “ It’s your fault, ” I told him, leaning back to look in his eyes. “I can’t keep my hands off of you. I don’t want to. I’ve waited forever to touch you like this.Cybill Cain
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A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. .Chuck Palahniuk
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A book is as private and consensual as sex.Chuck Palahniuk
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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.Chuck Palahniuk
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.Chuck Palahniuk
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Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way .. from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong.." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.Chuck Palahniuk
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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.Chuck Palahniuk
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You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories, ' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs. Other events–the ones you can’t digest–they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can’t talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you’re Cassandra’s wet shadow on the ground. Sunk in your own yellow protein mud. But the stories that you can digest, that you can tell–you can take control of those past moments. You can shape them, craft them. Master them. And use them to your own good. Those are stories as important as food. Those are stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt. To help exhaust that past moment for them and for you. Until that moment is dead. Consumed. Digested. Absorbed.Chuck Palahniuk
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As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happenChuck Palahniuk
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She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me." Here, the funeral parade stops. At this point, Comrade Snarky is a victim among victims. The rest of us – just her supporting cast. Mrs. Clark, leading us, she looks back and says, "He what?" And from behind his camera, Agent Tattletale says, "Me, too. He raped me first." Saint Gut-Free says, "Well what the hell.. He poked me, too." As if poor skinny Saint Gut-Free had enough ass left to poke. And Mrs. Clark says, "This is not funny. Not in the least."" Tough, " the Matchmaker tells her. "It's wasn't funny, either, when you raped me." Shaking his ponytail, the Duke of Vandals tells the Matchmaker, "You couldn't pay to get raped.Chuck Palahniuk
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No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“ It's the mark of a very, very young soul, ” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.” We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers.Chuck Palahniuk