Lullaby (Palahniuk novel) Quotes

“No detail is too minor to note.”

“These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics."”

“The more people die, the more things stay the same.”

“Still, he deserved to die. He called me an asshole.”

“Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.”

“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

“Until you deal with your real personal issues, you'll never be able to control yourself.”

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”

“These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.”

“"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

“I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.”

“Here's Big Brother, singing and dancing, force-feeding you, so your mind never goes hungry enough to think.”

“Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.”

“"When you think about it from a native plant perspective," Oyster says."Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist."”

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.”

“Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.”

“Our footsteps echo against the concrete floor. The steel roof hums with rain. And she says, 'Don't you feel, somehow, buried in history?'”