Tell-All Quotes

“This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett O'Hara. With ministrations of lipstick and eyeliner I give birth to Ophelia. To Marie Antoinette. Over the next trip of the larger hand around the face of the bedside clock, I give form to Lucrezia Borgia. Taking shape at my fingertips, my touches of foundation and blush, here is Jocasta. Lying here, Lady Windermere. Opening her eyes, Cleopatra. Given flesh, a smile, swinging her sculpted legs off one side of the bed, this is Helen of Troy. Yawning and stretching, here is every beautiful woman across history.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“There's worse that people can steal from you than money.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“No, none of us seem so very real.

We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.

Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“The problem is, if you never weep in public... well, the public assumes you never weep.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“No memory is anything more than a personal choice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“We all have some proper noun to blame.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All