Chuck Palahniuk: love quotes

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

...it's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

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.

On television, a man shouted “Te amo... Te amo...” again and again to a dark-haired girl with brown eyes and feathery long eyelashes while he kicked her down a flight of stairs.

That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

We have sort of a triangle thing going here. I wantTyler. Tyler wants Marla. Marla wants me. I don't want Marla, and Tyler doesn't want me around, not anymore.

And the Mommy says how the girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked, a document of this exact moment, the last moment they would be together.

Art, inspiration, love, they’re all so easy to dissect. To explain away.

“If you love something,” says the Matchmaker, “set it free.”
Just don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes...

“You know, I used to think the only thing worse than losing at love was winning. . .” She says, “I used to be so in love with Scout, ever since school, but you know how events. . . disappoint us.”