Choke

by Chuck Palahniuk

It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

And it’s funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody.

People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.

If I can’t be a great doctor saving hundreds of patients, this way I’m a great patient creating hundreds of would-be doctors.

The only way to get through medical school is mnemonics.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Scabies