Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk

She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

Ms. Wright said, High Definition was doing the same to a new generation of actors. Delivering too much information. An overdose of truth.

That old joke: The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him. That's not actually a joke. Not like a ha-ha joke.

The wrong idea could take root and grow inside you.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

The only thing that made me special, now my worst shame.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to be wrong?

How I felt about her, I loved her too much to ever try and fuck her, so much I didn't even beg to suck her titties or shove my hand down the front of her jeans. We had that kind of mutual affection and respect.

That's the same doom you feel, that drop in blood pressure, when the music shuts off, three in the morning, closing time at the ManRod or the Eagle, and you're left standing still unfucked, all alone.

Most cyanide poisoning occurs transdermally.

Okay, the truth is, they're all fake.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

My butt's a movie star.

Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.

These pud-pullers, these jerk-offs, it's them leading the rest of us. It's what gets them off that decides what your million kids will want for Christmas next year.