Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.
You always kill the one you love.
Find good in what the world says is evil.
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.
No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.
I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.
More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection
Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.
I don't want to die without any scars.
It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.
Self improvement is masturbation...
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
You had a near life experience.
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
I know this because Tyler knows this.
Look up at the stars and you're gone.
Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger.
Hysteria is impossible without an audience.
New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
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