""This isn't really death," Tyler says, "We'll be legend. We won't grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and sa…"

"You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you…"

"We have a sort of triangle thing going on here. I want Tyler. Tyler wants Marla. Marla wants me."

"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever …"

"This is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion."

"It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the surv…"

"This was therapeutic physical contact, Chloe said. we should all choose a partner. Chloe threw herself around my head…"

"This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of ever…"

"Strangers with this kind of honesty make me grow a big rubbery one, if you know what I mean."

"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal l…"