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Reality Means You Live Until You Die. The Real Truth Is Nobody Wants Reality.

The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Kill Yourself

to continue with that theme I like it in all its glory;

"A guy's calling to say he's failing Algebra II.
Just as a point of practiice I say, Kill yourself.
A woman calls and says her kids won't behave.
Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself.
A man calls to say his car won't start.
Kill yourself.
A woman calls to ask what time the late movie stars.
Kill yourself.
She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse Cineplex?"
I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
Well sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living." pg 237

This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

It figures this comes up when I've lent the book to somebody else.

The only one I can remember is something like "I want to coat my whole life in topical anesthetic."

"The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?"

"And if Christ had died from a barbituate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in heaven?"

"Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuçk for hours. This really seems to miss the point. I want my whole life to be lined with a topical anesthetic."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"What do you call a caseworker who hates her job and loses every client?
Dead.
What do you call the police worker zipping her into a big rubber bag?
Dead.
What do you call the television anchor on camera in the front yard?
Dead.
It does not matter. The joke is we all have the same punch line."

oh wait, maybe that fourth one is from invisible monsters...oops

Everything we can do is wrong as long as we're still alive.

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believeing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them

"If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get

EDIT; Wrong Thread.

"Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions."

"The joke is we all have the same punchline."

"The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor."

"Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way you can get anything really finished."

"Amphetamines are the most American drug. You can get so much done. You look terrific, and your middle name is Accomplishment."

"The waitress brings the chicken stir-fry and my lemon meringue pie and fills our coffee cups. Then she smiles and goes off to die."

"Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours."

"You can't trust me around anybody's brother with a telephone or a rock."

If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.

"The rest of the evening went as planned. People went home feeling saved, and I told myself I'd kill myself some other time. The moment was all wrong. I procrastinated, and timing was everything.

Besides.

Eternity was going to seem like forever."

By far the best passage of the book. End of Chapter 25, page 128.

I am going to have to agree with HiGhJiNx on this one.
"Kill yourself" - beautifully simplistic
"the only thing I know is everything you love will die"

"You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?"

" If you want to see the face of a killer, look in the mirror"

Woops, wrong book.

"these flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. birds will crap on them. the smoke here will make them stink, and tomorow a buldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful"
pg 24

The sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just there in front. We're on top of the clouds and this is a beautiful day forever.

it has no personal or philisophical meaning, i just think its a really beautiful piece of writing, i cant explain why...

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but reapeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fallen [/i]
[B]The sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just there in front. We're on top of the clouds and this is a beautiful day forever.

it has no personal or philisophical meaning, i just think its a really beautiful piece of writing, i cant explain why... [/B][/QUOTE]

what page is that quote on?

"Everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation."

My signature. funniest quote in the book i think lol

I like "Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic."

"May I be of complete and utmost service.
Let my ever task be my grace.
In my evert labor lies my salvation.
Let my effort not be wasted.
Through my works may I save the world."

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cthulhu [/i]
[B]"Everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation." [/B][/QUOTE]

By far my favorite quote of all time i live my life by this. (ask anyone i know i say this and write it on everything)

I especially enjoy these quotes concerning Adam Branson's initial impressions of the world outside the church colony from pages 273-272:

"In the outside world, Adam said it was a bargain with the devil that powered auotmobiles and carried airplanes across the sky. Evil flowed through electric wires to make people lazy. People put their dishes back in the cupboard dirty, and the cupboard washed them. Water in pipes carried away their garbage and shit so that it was someone else's problem."

"...said how in the outside world, people looked in mirrors. Right in front of him on the bus, he said, people had mirrors and everyone was busy seeing how they looked. It was shameful."

"In the outside world, Adam said, all the counting was done inside machines. All the food was fed to people by waitresses."

"A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world. Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions."

Frightening how much truth there is to these quotes. What a swell world it is we live in, huh?

Madeline_Dancer, nice job, lots of quotes (the 4th one is from invisible monsters... but you had a bunch of awesome ones!)

everything you love will die

mylife is not some funeral grady peiceof trash that will be outlived by some name in an obituary.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by deftones [/i]
[B]what page is that quote on? [/B][/QUOTE]

Pg. 284. I looked it up manually and then I remembered the new feature at amazon that lets you search for a phrase from a book and it returns a page number and part of the text from that page. It's a great resource to track down those quotes that stick in your head:

[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385498721/ref=sib_dp_srch/103-0158236-6398209?v=search-inside&keywords=The+sky+is+blue+and+righteous+in+every+direction&go.x=10&go.y=12[/url]

"Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts" -p.237

[QUOTE=Cthulhu]"Everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation."[/QUOTE]

my favorite aswell

"McDonald's almost hired me one time, and I only applied for the job to meet younger girls. Black girls, Hispanic, white, and Chinese girls, it says right on the job application how McDonald's hires different races and ethnic backgrounds. It's girls, girls, girls, buffet style."

"Testing, testing, one, two-"

I just loved that. So abrupt. Leaving me craving for more Chuck.

"Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way of your being useful. Any emotion was decadent. Anticipation or regret was a slly extra. A luxury." pp. 273

"And maybe this is just a trick of the light, but I've eaten almost the whole lobster before I notice the heart beat." pp. 260

"From so high up on my ladder, the thin bendable little arms and legs of the girl make me look agaon and again and wonder if someday I could be a pedophile." pp. 257

"My goldfish is swimming around all excited in it's fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a valium in it's water." pp. 282

"This is getting nowhere with the girl in the dance club so I tell her, Kill yourself.
She's saying, 'What?'
Kill yourself.
She's saying, 'What?'
Try barbiturates and alcohol with your head inside a dry leaning bag.
She's saying, 'What?'
You cannot bread a veal cutlet and do a good job with only one hand so I tell her, now or never. Pull the trigger or don't. I'm with her right now. She's not going to die alone, but I don't have all night." pp. 282

"A girl calls and asks, 'Does it hurt very much to die?'
Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living." pp. 237

The wall says, I fucked Sandy Moore
All around that, ten others have scratched, Me too.
Someone else has scratched, Has anybody here not fucked Sandy Moore?
Next to that is scratched, I haven't
Next to that is scratched, Faggot.

And what I hope is she's dead. My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

In the outside world, he [Adam] said, people were visited in their homes by spirits they called television.
Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

It's not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo.

"Just to make sure I dont go south on her, the caseworker is eyeing me. Just to keep her out of my way, I have her slicing a lime. Get me some cigarettes. Mix me a fresh drink, i say, or I'll kill myself. I swear.I'll go in the bathroom and hack all my veins open with a razor." page173

"Caller number two asks what I think of thong swimwear.
The TelePrompTer says: ABOMINATION.
I say, After years of presoaking for rich people, I think the people who make thong swimwear and underwear should just make the thong par black to begin with." -102,103

"If christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in Heaven?" -133

just check the Sig

"The truth is I wasn't a rocket scientist to begin with, and every day I'm losing ground. I'm not stupid, but I'm getting there."

pg. 88

Page 19 2nd paragraph from Choke:
"For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose...watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

Hey but what other quote would you expect from a 21 y/o guy

Sorry for the non survivor post but im at work and i like to put exact page numbers and i dont have the book handy been loaning that book left and right since i got it about 2 years ago

I read that book on the airplane to New York a couple months ago, it's the perfect airplane book, they should sell copies at those kiosks...but now I can't find the thing. A couple of stand out lines are (and I may not have these exactly correct):

"It was drugs that saved my life."

"These are broken homes, dysfunctional homes."

ohh man, i had the best one, but i forgot it, and i cant find it, so i think im gonna read the last 10 chapters this week, cuz of finals, ill get back to you guys with it

"I told the agent, I figured I'd spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that t I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market share over the next millennium. I wanted to ride the crest." 131

all the prayers from the "Book of Very Common Prayer"

"More and more everything in my life was a fix for an earlier fix for an earlier fix until I forget what the original problem was" 94

"Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
To be or not to be. Every time you dont throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reeinlist." 161

These have to be my favorite quotes from the book. To me, they are very true and so cleverly written that in order to fully understand them you almost have to look at our culture and way of life through the eyes of an alien spectator. No other author has made me think and analyze the world in which I live as this author does with every one of his books. It's great.

"Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions"
[quote from pg. 273-272]

"A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world" [quote from pg. 273]

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone" [quote from pg. 273]

"Around the one hundred and fifth floor, you can't believe you're a slave to this body, this big baby. You have to keep it fed and put it to bed and take it to the bathroom. You can't believe we haven't invented something better. Something not so needy. Not so time consuming" [quote from pg. 151]

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

yea

hey

i don't know why but i actually laughed out loud when i read this part. i found it hilarious.

"From now on," Adam tells us, "you two have a child."
We do not.
"Your child is deathly ill," Adam says.
Our child is not.