Survivor

by Chuck Palahniuk

To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. 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.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

You can tell people the truth, but they’ll never believe you until the event. Until it’s too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.