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Haunted QUOTES

Haunted QUOTES

1 " Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

2 " Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

3 " A book is as private and consensual as sex. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

4 " This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

5 " We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

6 " Some stories, you use up. Others use you up. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

7 " You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs.
Other events—the ones you can’t digest—they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can’t talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you’re Cassandra’s wet shadow on the ground. Sunk in your own yellow protein mud.
But the stories that you can digest, that you can tell—you can take control of those past moments. You can shape them, craft them. Master them. And use them to your own good. Those are stories as important as food. Those are stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt. To help exhaust that past moment for them and for you. Until that moment is dead.
Consumed. Digested. Absorbed. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

8 " As human beings, our first commandment is:
Something needs to happen "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

9 " No, we love war.

War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.

“It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”

We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

10 " People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

11 " The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

12 " To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

13 " The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

14 " A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

15 " When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

16 " The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

17 " Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

18 " That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

19 " Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted

20 " Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted