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Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days. ”
“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.”
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.”
“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”
“If we can forgive what has 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 villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.”
“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”
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