Haunted (Palahniuk novel) Quotes

“Chapter 19, Absolution”

“I lost my virginity through my ear.”

“You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”

“As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'”

“We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.”

“Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.”

“Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.”

“"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you." p205”

“You can't unfuck a kid. Once you fuck a kid, you can't get that genie back in the bottle.”

“"A journalist has a right... ...and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create."”

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“With the angel of death going door to door, people stayed together. They quit bitching and behaved.”

“If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.”

“Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288”

“This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.”

“"Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences."”

“"Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise," he says, "you'll always be controlled by the world."”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”