Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
dream kids alive
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
children mistake smart
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
mother father caring
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
cake laughing would-be
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake
mean
you can make mean anything.
sadness bad-day closing-up
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.
want claire
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
mom dream dad
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
beautiful looks assuming
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
drama stupid silly
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
suicide missing stories
Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.
thinking scary-stories echoes
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
jobs hate tricks
If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
dark black-and-white light
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.