Choke Quotes

“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.”
― PALAHNIUK CHUCK

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”
― PALAHNIUK CHUCK

“What are you up to?"
"I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.”
― Obert Skye, Choke

“In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“The point was, there'd be nothing to this if you were beautiful and sexy.
The point was, in a world where everybody had to look so pretty all the time, this guy wasn't. The monkey wasn't. What they were doing wasn't.
The point was, it's not the sex part of pornography that hooked the stupid little boy. It was the confidence. The courage. The complete lack of shame. The comfort and genuine honesty. The up-front-ness of being able to just stand there and tell the world: Yeah, this is how I chose to spend a free afternoon. Posing here with a monkey putting chestnuts up my ass.
And I really don't care how I look. Or what you think.
So deal with it.
He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“It's all easy, it's not about looking good at least not on the surface, but you still win. Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life ,keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.....”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I nearly choked on my milkshake.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Falcon's Malteser

“To make it last, to keep from triggering, I tell Nico's flowered backside how beautiful she is, how sweet she is and how much I need her. Her skin and hair. To make it last. Because this is the only time I can say it. Because the moment this is over, we'll hate each other. The moment we find ourselves cold and sweating on the bathroom floor, the moment after we both come, we won't want to even look at each other.
The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
These are the only few minutes I can be human.
Just for these minutes, I don't feel lonely.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“People are snapping pictures, trying to take some part of you home as a souvenir. People point video cameras, trying to trap you into their vacation. They're all shooting you, shooting the crippled chickens. Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“How do you kill that urge to express what you feel? I need to spell it out, empty my guts off, ensure its depths are known. Else I'll choke.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Someday all the words you couldn't utter are going to choke you up.”
― Nitya Prakash

“If you ram change down people’s throats, you’ll choke on the results.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“The police love to strangle their victims, they call it a ‘Choke Hold’.”
― Steven Magee

“I wasn’t going to push until he choked to death. I didn’t know much about women, but killing their best friend didn’t seem like a good courting move.”
― L.J. Shen, Angry God

“I hope you choke on your devilled eggs you--”
― Ardin Patterson, Feral