Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks. Chuck Palahniuk animal death lying Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world. Chuck Palahniuk nice angel death That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. Chuck Palahniuk christmas light flower Without true chaos, we can never have true peace. Chuck Palahniuk true-peace chaos If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. Chuck Palahniuk temples too-much real And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage. Chuck Palahniuk track insomnia fall As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood. Chuck Palahniuk cutting real heart To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control. Chuck Palahniuk experts forever giving You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. Chuck Palahniuk apathy skins feelings Funerals are all abstract ceremony. Chuck Palahniuk ceremony abstract funeral I'm only confrontational with my friends. Chuck Palahniuk my-friends A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights. Chuck Palahniuk sitting rights littles I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you. Chuck Palahniuk writing character hands I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. Chuck Palahniuk havens If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. Chuck Palahniuk dying death people The first step to eternal life is you have to die. Chuck Palahniuk steps death firsts When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone. Chuck Palahniuk trust-me moments looks If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate. Chuck Palahniuk reincarnation procrastination way How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished. Chuck Palahniuk dark war years The only thing I know is everything you love will die. Chuck Palahniuk things-you-love dies knows
