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Haunted quotes

Chuck Palahniuk

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“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things—they save you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing...” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“If you love something . . . set it free. Just don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes...”
“The truth is... you think what people want you to think.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character . . . Would you slow down? Or speed up?” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“Some stories . . . you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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