I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it’s just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn’t such a great skill to have.

30 day book challenge: day 1

When we don’t know who to hate we hate ourselves.

It’s a mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

I don’t know the difference between what I want and what I’m trained to want.

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fuckyeschuckpalahniuk:

This is Chuck Palahniuk when he was in college.
If he was this age in today’s world and I met this boy, I would fall hopelessly and irrevocably in love with him, I’m sure of it.

god his beautiful mind

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It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

…and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.