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we imagined our pain as a ball of white healing light floating around our feet and rising to our knees, our waist, our chest. Our chakras opening.
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact I was breathing.
"Young people, they think they want the whole world.”
"If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don’t.”
You don’t say anything because fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends.
I tell Tyler, Marla Singer doesn’t need a lover, she needs a case worker.
"Get married before the sex gets boring, or you’ll never get married.”
"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.”
Get me fired. I’m not married to this chickenshit job.”
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THIS IS WHY I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
Marla’s philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn’t.
"I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions,”
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
"Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
"If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?”
"We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
