"Destroying every scrap of history."
"This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership."
"Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?"
"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash. Anything you're ever proud of will be thrown away."
"This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion. It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die."
"Losing all hope was freedom."
"Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved."
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
"One minute was enough, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"You've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
"A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things. A lot of young people don't know what they really want. Young people, they think they want the whole world. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."
"I just don't want to die without a few scars."
"Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart."
"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer."
"Maybe we need to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
"Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered."
"Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed."
"I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection."
"According to the ancient Chinese custom we all learned from television, Tyler is responsible for Marla, forever, because Tyler saved Marla's life."
"The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything. [She] has no faith in herself, and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer
and fewer options. Good luck."
"I should run from self-improvement, and I should be running towards disaster. I can't just play it safe anymore."
"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."
"A tiger can smile
"A snake will say it loves you
"Lies make us evil."
"The last thing I want is [her] moving on, one piece of crap at a time."
"Maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad."
"There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love."
"If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak."
"Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit."
"I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have."
"Sweet woodruff gives soap a cut grass smell."
"If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never knew your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?"
"A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well it works both ways."
"Sometimes you find your father in your career."
"How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash."
"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens."
Afterword:
"There is nothing a blue-collar nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done."
"Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most of the time it's close enough."
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