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I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.
and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.
It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.
She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.