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Damned (Damned, #1) QUOTES

Damned (Damned, #1) QUOTES

1 " What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

2 " You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living.
But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

3 " Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

4 " No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

5 " Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

6 " Help me give up my addiction to Hope. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

7 " They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

8 " If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

9 " How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

10 " Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

11 " It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

12 " It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

13 " [W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

14 " They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

15 " What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

16 " ...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw.
Chapter I. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

17 " My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

18 " Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

19 " All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshipped. The Jews attacked Belial, the god of the Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki anda Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Romans. The Anglican British banned belief in the Australian aboriginal spirits known as the Mimi. Satan is depicted with cloven hooves because Pan had them, and he carries a pitchfork based on the trident carried by Neptune. As each deity was deposed, it was relegated to Hell. For gods so long accustomed to receiving tribute and loving attention, of course this status shift put them into a foul mood. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)

20 " To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)