Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

  • "You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die." (pg. 12)
  • "That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways." (pg. 13)
  • "With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels." (pg. 13)
  • "I know all of this: the gun, the anarchy, the explosion is really about Marla Singer." (pg. 14)
  • "This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. Without Marla, Tyler would have nothing." (pg. 14)
  • "and I am lost inside." (pg. 17)
  • "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)
  • "because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion." (pg. 17)
  • "Too much estrogen, and you get bitch tits." (pg. 17)
  • "It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero." (pg. 17)
  • "'All my life,' Bob cries, 'Why I do anything, I don't know.'" (pg. 18)
  • "I just wanted to sleep. I wanted little blue Amytal Sodium capsules, 200-milligram-sized. I wanted red-and-blue Tuinal bullet capsules, lipstick-red Seconals." (pg. 19)
  • "Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head." (pg. 19)
  • "Chloe talked us into caves where we met our power animal. Mine was a penguin." (pg. 20)
  • "and the penguin said, slide." (pg. 20)
  • "This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you." (pg. 21)
  • "Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big rubbery one, if you know what I mean." (pg. 21)
  • "Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born. Resurrected." (pg. 22)
  • "Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved." (pg. 22)

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