633 quotes found
Novelist · American · 1962
American novelist (born 1962)
“Ignorance was bliss.”
“Suicide is very contagious.”
“Art never comes from happiness”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addict...”
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
“Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war ...”
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”
“Make me into anything, but just love me.”
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that...”
“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.”
“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”
“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. ”
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”
“You cant fool people into loving you.”