Impressionistic

I recently finished this book (by Chuck Palahniuk!), and instead of spamming you with quote posts, I’ve compiled them all here:

“Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. ‘Then puberty makes you Satan,’ he says, ‘just because you want something better.’”

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love.”

“Driving east, I’m not sure what we’re running from. Evie or the police or Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won’t have to get on with our lives.”

“I’m an invisible monster, and I’m incapable of loving anybody. You don’t know which is worse.”

“Manus once said that your folks are God. You love them and you want to make them happy, but you still want to make up your own rules.”

“‘First,’ Manus says, ‘your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.’”

“‘The world,’ Brandy says, ‘is your cradle and your trap.’”

“We’d go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she’s so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she’s just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.”

“That’s what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can’t know I’m its mother. It’s so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that’s what I love about fire.”