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121 " You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Survivor
122 " This isn’t such a beautiful world that he has to stay in it and suffer. This isn’t much of a world at all. "
123 " It’s not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo. "
124 " We’re all miserable together. "
125 " People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone. "
126 " There were jobs so boring, you’d find ways to cripple yourself so you couldn’t work. "
127 " And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven? "
128 " Can you just relax and let things happen? "
129 " You don’t have to control everything,” she says. “You can’t control everything. "
130 " People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them. "
131 " The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. "
132 " A year could pass between her asking a question and my answer. "
133 " Your name told you just how your life would go. "
134 " The easy thing to do was give her the benefit of the doubt. "
135 " Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of therapy, and I’m still in about the same place. This probably isn’t something we should celebrate. "
136 " I don’t want her falling in love with me as a voice on the phone while at the same time she’s trying to ditch me as a real person. "
137 " Suicide is very contagious. "
138 " With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would be like cleaning up after a stranger every day. Washing dishes all day. Feeding a stranger’s children. Mowing a lawn. All day. Painting houses. Year after year. "
139 " The truth is nothing new ever happens. "
140 " We were all so worried about our worst fears, squeezing frogs, eating worms, poisons, asbestos, we never considered how boring life would be even if we succeeded and got a good job. "