Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby Quotes & Sayings

That's why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It's like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It's got to consume, and consume, and consume. — John Jackson Miller

A good twenty percent of this idea's allure is in my eagerness to get rid of my V-card so I can stop saving it for Hunter. I need to be freed of that idea. Freed of my crush. I hope that after spending some time at Love Inc., I never blush in the middle of a sexual encounter ever again. No Hunter West or anybody else will be able to knock me off my feet, and I like that idea. — Ella James

Hiding is existing in a constant state of alarm, remaining undiscovered, and inferior. — Philip Schultz

The thorn tree just began to bud
And greening stained the sheltering hedge,
An many a violet beside the wood
Peeped blue between the withered sedge;
The sun gleamed warm the bank beside,
'Twas pleasant wandering out a while
Neath nestling bush to lonely hide,
Or bend a musings o'er a stile. — John Clare

People in the outside world said something stupid with their every breath, and when they didn't talk their radios filled the gap with the copied voices of people singing the same songs over and over. — Chuck Palahniuk

We give empathy to others for our own benefit. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants. — E. M. Forster

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. — Bill Gates

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight. — Allen Tate

I'm a born-again atheist. — Gore Vidal

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning. — Lewis Thomas

(the villa) It's beautiful too, all hot pinks and reds, and rocks and sand and blinding blue and white. — Anne Rivers Siddons

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. — Susan Sontag

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? — Chuck Palahniuk

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist. — Chuck Palahniuk

When they say "my heart skipped a beat," they're full of crap. Really, what they mean is, your heart sort of stutters and thinks about stopping for a second before it remembers that beating is good for it. — Maggie Stiefvater