Elizabeth V. > Elizabeth's Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“We just had a near-life experience!”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“To the heavens on the wings of a pig.”
― John Steinbeck

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”
― Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover