Lucky Day Quotes

“This is the endless dichotomy of existence, I suppose, moments of visceral horror and divine beauty happening all at once to create an impossibly unique thing called life.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Existence is chaos and there are no answers. Even in statistics, you're often just hedging your bets...”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“There are billions and billions of paths for us on any given day, and we certainly remember the ones that lead to something like a brutal car crash. We think to ourselves, Why me? how did I get so unlucky? The problem is, we have absolutely no idea how many times we've missed one of the infinite tragic routes, ducking and dodging butterflies left and right. Every day, we never know the billions and billions and billions of crash crashes we're not in.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“if everything's already fucked, the least we can do is take down as many scumbags as possible on our way into oblivion.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“This place, like all of Las Vegas, is an abomination.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“maybe I got caught up in the adventure of it all, because it’s nice to momentarily forget that everything we do is just a different flavor of suffering.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Every moment of clarity cancels the next one out, every epiphany just leads to another question. It’s static. It’s chaos. It’s noise. Too many things spilling into one another to create a sickening, painful, exhausting soup called life. Reality is ridiculous, and the only thing that makes any sense is the nothingness between worlds.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“I’m something, at the very least. I’ve defied the existential odds already, winning the trillion-to-one jackpot of even existing in the first place.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Maybe it’s not order I’m looking for, though, and maybe that’s been the problem this whole time. Order and purpose are often considered synonymous, but there’s a subtle difference between the two. Finding order in this chaotic world has turned out to be a fool’s errand, but purpose might still have a chance.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Living is all we got.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“My eyes open again, staring at myself in the warped television reflection. One could see this moment as a grand internal struggle, a war waged entirely within my own psyche as apathy and hope battle it out like gargantuan monsters from the deep, but it's really not that complicated. This moment isn't as magnificent as one might think.

It all comes down to a simple choice. I can lie back in the bed, or I can clean off this blood. Nothing more, nothing less.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Good choices cause harm, too, and bad choices can turn into something beautiful.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Death will stop you in your tracks, but sometimes being alive can be just as arresting.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Nothing matters, but that's no reason to mourn. It's reason to celebrate. I'm here, whatever that means, so I might as well enjoy the ride.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“I glance from place to place, noticing the very important thing that’s been stripped away from each of these visions. They should be teeming with people, a far cry from the lonely, liminal spaces on display.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“If all this little voice of mine gets to do is tell oblivion to fuck right off, then that’s enough for me,”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Try to imagine that pure nothingness. No matter, no energy, not even time. It’s difficult to even conceptualize how we might experience this kind of space, whether our brains are up to the task or they’d simply collapse under their own weight. We are not discussing a location where time has stopped, but one where time does not exist. It is not a realm of eternal darkness, but a realm with no color or shade at all.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Finding order in this chaotic world has turned out to be a fool’s errand, but purpose might still have a chance.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“As the former youngest statistics and probability professor in U Chicago history, I’ll be the first to admit there’s not enough data to really calculate my odds of surviving longer than a month, a week, even a few days, but in broad strokes the answer seems apparent. My chances are not great.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“I’m furious with him, horrified at what he tried to do, but I also can’t help the sadness and grief that grip me.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“You don’t exist,” she replies, beaming with joy. I can’t help scoffing. “You told me the exact same thing the last time we were here.” My mother closes her eyes, taking some time to bask in the moment. “Well, I was right.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“It sounds like marbles rattling their way down a host of writhing bamboo shoots, but every so often it mutates into a choir of melodic chirps that ring out like they’re being strangled from the bent necks of enormous, fantastical birds.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“But I have to accept the difference between this moment and a popular ’90s television show. In real life there are no clean endings, especially not when it comes to overpowered ruthless governmental bodies with a monopoly on violence.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Denver shakes her head and rolls her eyes. “Here’s the thing folks like y’all don’t understand: at a certain point, the world’s attention moves on. Nothing really changes. Sure, we might take a hit to our bottom line for a few years, but eventually everything just returns to the same old pecking order as before.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Agent Layne cracks a shit-eating grin. “All these supposed bisexuals are one of two things, Vera. Confused gays on their way over the bridge, or straight people looking for attention.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“Either way, most people remember the bad things and forget the good stuff. That’s just how our brains work. A day holding just as much joy as the Low-Probability Event held tragedy could’ve already happened … we just didn’t notice.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“There’s another theory that’s a counter to the butterfly effect; it’s called historical inertia,” I say. “Essentially, historical inertia states that if the butterfly refuses to flap its wings, the tornado still happens, because a seagull flaps its wings instead. The same path is always created in a different way. Major events can never change.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“I sense a plume of sparks blooming in the vast dark space of my mind as renegade neurons reach out and grab for one another. This little sensation of excitement used to be a daily occurrence, connections constantly firing off in a euphoric search for order.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“The emotions bubbling up are too much, finally compelling me to turn and rush from the trailer. I barge through the door, the screen whipping back with a loud clatter as I stumble down the steps.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day

“He casually tosses over the drive. “It’s a shitload of information to sort through, we’re talking years and years of material, but it’ll be a lot easier once we cross-reference the files,” Agent Layne explains. “Just focus on the folders they delete from this batch.” I hate to admit it, but it’s kinda brilliant.”
― Chuck Tingle, Lucky Day