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“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“I tell everybody, I’m tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let’s just not pretend. I don’t have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.”
― Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”
― PALAHNIUK CHUCK

“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“...I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects

“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It was impossible to escape her. She provided no natural break in the conversation, and she spoke with such intensity that I would have had to abruptly shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP," punch her, and then run away in order to be free.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors