You can’t fool people into loving you.
Weitere Zitate von Chuck Palahniuk
Zum Autor"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost."
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."
"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis."
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."