"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Rememeber this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

""Only after disaster can we be resurrected.""
— Chuck Palahniuk

"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

" "What do you think it'll be like?" Tyler asked. I could feel his breath on my face.
"What what will be like?"
"Being married." He said, as if this were an obvious answer.
"Oh." I said, surprised. "Um...I don't know." What on Earth did he expect me to say? What on Earth *should* I say?
"
— Alysha Speer