(Chuck Palahniuk)

• Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Anything you're ever proud of will be thrown away. And I'm lost inside. (pg. 17)
• Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. (pg. 19)
• This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. (pg. 29)
• One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (pg. 33)
• "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. (pg. 46)
• "You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger." (pg. 66)
• There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. (pg. 106)
• How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. (pg. 201)