sentence starters from CHOKE by CHUCK PALAHNIUK. nsfw themes present.
❝ you can change the way people live their lives. ❞
❝ more and more, it feels like i’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself. ❞
❝ i feel my heart ache, but i’ve forgotten what that feeling means. ❞
❝ just keep asking yourself: what would jesus not do? ❞
❝ nothing is as exciting as your fantasy. ❞
❝ without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace. ❞
❝ unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better. ❞
❝ my first time i jacked off, i thought i’d invented it. ❞
❝ it’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. ❞
❝ for the first time in longer than i can remember, i feel peaceful. ❞
❝ you gain power by pretending to be weak. ❞
❝ after you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ❞
❝ at some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you’ll have left. ❞
❝ torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. ❞
❝ the laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. ❞
❝ sex pretty much cures everything. ❞
❝ you can’t fool people into loving you. ❞
❝ everybody is always a stranger. nothing is ever familiar. ❞
❝ i wish i had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… ❞
❝ i wish, just once, i could say, ‘this. this is good enough. just because i choose it. ❞
❝ you had to risk your life to get love. ❞
❝ you had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ❞
❝ i’m so smart i can negate any dream. ❞
❝ i’m an uncaring asshole and proud of it. ❞
❝ more and more, the hardest part of crying is when i can’t stop. ❞
❝ i’d like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. ❞
❝ you live down to expectations. even if the shoe doesn’t fit, you’ll shrink to fill it. ❞
❝ i used rebellion as a way to hide out. ❞
❝ we use criticism as a fake participation. ❞
❝ [you think that] if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love. ❞
❝ if it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love. ❞
❝ it’s funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. ❞
❝ i just want one person i can rescue and i want one person who needs me. who can’t live without me.❞
❝ i want to be a hero, but not just one time. ❞
❝ the only person we’ll hate more than each other is ourselves. ❞