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121 " Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
122 " Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself. "
123 " I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything"... "Nothing was ever good enough," my mom says, "so here at the end of my life, I'm left with nothing. "
124 " Why do I do anything? I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. "
125 " I want to fuck you so bad I can taste it "
126 " The skin along the parts in her hair, the skin above and behind the doctor's ears, is as clear and white as the skin inside her other tan lines must look. If women knew how their ears come across, the firm fleshy edge, the little dark hood at the top, all the smooth contours coiled and channeling you to the tight darkness inside, well, more women would wear their hair down. "
127 " The answer is there is no answer "
128 " ...the girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there. "
129 " You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. "
130 " I'm not so much a good friend as I am the saviour who wants you to worship him forever. "
131 " We’re all here. Alive and unwell. "
132 " These old people. These human ruins. "
133 " The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. "
134 " Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. "
135 " Black-and-white chickens stagger around Colonial Dunsboros, chickens with their heads flattened. Here are chickens with no wings or only one leg. There are chickens with no legs, swimming with just their ragged wings through the barnyard mud. Blind chickens without eyes. Without beaks. Born that way. Defective. Born with their little chicken brains already scrambled. There's an invisible line between science and sadism, but here it's made visible. "
136 " It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive. "
137 " I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything... I can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me?... Griping isn't the same as creating something... Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing... We've taken the world apart, but we have no idea what to do with the pieces... My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own... I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as fake participation. It only looks as if we've accomplished something. "
138 " There is no human soul, and I am absolutely for sure seriously not going to fucking cry. "
139 " Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind. "
140 " Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood. "