Grand Ink

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Theme: Literary
1. Stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt.
2. Most people, they’ve never killed a chicken, much less a human being. People, they have no idea how tough this is going to be.
3. We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one. None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate.
4. Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
5. Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. This mountain of the dead, they lift you into the daylight.
6. The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
7. I fucked up. I can't fix this. Can I?
8. To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
9. If you love something... Set it free. Just don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
10. Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right.
11. In our secret heart’s heart, we love to root against the home team. Against humanity. It’s us against us.
12. We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.
13. This morning, we were astronauts. Explorers. Awake while they slept.
14. What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control of the game. It’s the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow is a definite first step down some road.
15. You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
16. A cough-cough, here. A cough-cough, there. Here, a gripe. There, a bitch. Everywhere, a complaint.
17. A game of pool. Music on the jukebox. A couple hamburgers with fried eggs, French fries.
18. Nobody knows how she got that biohazard sample from the lab.
19. So far, no one’s volunteered to swing the cleaver. Not because it’s too disgusting, too awful, but because it would so put him in the driver’s seat.
20. With a mug of hot tea and some Vicodin in my bloodstream, I look up from my book to watch the bugs outside the windows.
21. There’s no law yet says folks can’t pay to sock you.
22. There’s the rumble of springs inside the old sofa. There’s the rasp and—click—of a cigarette lighter. Then a sigh. A whiff of cigarette smoke.
23. Each of us trying to be the camera, not the subject.
24. Some deeds are too low to even get a name. Too low to even get talked about.
25. This way to die takes all night.
26. If no one wants something pretty and polished and old, there’s a terrible reason why.
27. It’s maybe not the Good Life, but it’s the Good-Enough Life.
28. The moment they opened the box, when they saw what was inside, it was too late.
29. We recite this: the Mythology of Us.
30. Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

from Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk