"Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk
Quotes to make you think
"The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday"
"History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses."
"The young men and women who acquire perfect breasts and muscles before they know how to best to use that power, they end up pregnant and mired so close to home" ( hello all the people who cant get out of the valley)
"Nobody's al that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos"
"How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property"
"Picture the moment when your mom or dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. They picture when you stopped being their dream"
"but a child who relinquishes the illusions of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, that child may come away with themost important skill set. The child may recognize the strength of his own imagination and faith. He will embrace the ability to create his own reality. That child becomes his own authority. He determines the nature of his world. His own vision. And by doing so, by the power of his example, he determines the reality of the other two types: those who can't imagine, and those who can't trust"
"Here's a girl's secret--the reason you eat dinner witha man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slob who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy"
"The journey is always a means to some greater end, and the excitement and danger of the journey should be minimized. Perpetuating the fallacy that a journey itself is of little value"
"People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact"
"Here's one night when i control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive. My regular little dress rehearsal"
"the person asking the questions is the person in control"
"Not to be overly moralistic, but sometimes the death if one person can justify the death of an entire culture"
"Simply stated, Liminal Time has no beginning and no end. Nothing is subject to the natural processes of decay and replacement. In Liminal Time, nothing is born and nothing dies. Quite understandably, only deities ever existed in this immortality"