Chuck Palahniuk's - Survivor

Not a bad book so far....


“To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P. 282


“The idea came by accident when a newspaper did a feature about a new crisis hotline. The phone number in the paper was mine by mistake. It was a typo. Nobody read the correction they ran the next day, and people just started calling me day and night with their problems.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P. 280

“Call me a sexual predator, but when I think of predators I think of lions, tigers, big cats, sharks. This isn’t so much a predator versus prey relationship. This isn’t a scavenger, a vulture, or a laughing hyena versus a carcass. This isn’t a parasite versus a host.
We’re all miserable together.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P. 278


“Just concentrate on the stain until your memory is completely erased. Practice really does make perfect. If you could call it that.
Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. You have a God-given knack for committing a terrible sin. It’s your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing. If you could call it that.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P.268

“Ask me how to repair stab holes in nightgowns, tuxedos, and hats. My secret is a little clear nail polish on the inside of the puncture.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P.265

“Whether you clean a stain, a fish, a house, you want to think you’re making the world a better place, but you’re really just letting things get worse. You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P.263

“After working in these rich houses, I know the best way to get blood out of the trunk of a car is not to ask questions.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P.263


“And maybe this is just a trick of the light, but I’ve eaten most of the lobster before I notice the heart beat.”
- Chuck Palahniuk P. 260

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

“It’s Funny, Tom thought – it’s funny, the way the world goes. You take your children and with all honesty you teach them, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” You give them dancing lessons. You teach them Latin, and how to dress properly. You teach them self-respect, if you can. All these things my father must have learned when he was young, and all these things I learned, and if I can, I will teach all these things to my son. And if I can, I will also teach him to defend his country. If he has to, I hope he’ll be a tough bastard too.”

Tom Rath - P. 97


““I want justice,” he had said. I wonder how many murders have been committed, and how many wars have been fought with that as a slogan, Bernstein thought. When the say that want justice, they always want someone else to get the sharp end of it. Justice is a thing that is better to give than to receive, but I am sick of giving it, he thought. I think it should be a prerogative of the gods.”

Judge Bernstein - P. 136

Wilson, Sloan. 1983. The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. Four Walls Eight Windows: Canada