## Metadata - Author: [[Chuck Palahniuk]] - Full Title: Survivor - Category: #books ## Highlights - People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ([Location 215](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=215)) - It’s not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo. ([Location 259](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=259)) - These days, what I need is one of those cordless telephone headsets. A kind of Walkman of human misery. ([Location 277](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=277)) - In the outside world, he said, women had the power to change the color of their hair. And their eyes. And their lips. ([Location 289](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=289)) - People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone. ([Location 298](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=298)) - People put their dishes back in the cupboard dirty, and the cupboard washed them. ([Location 326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=326)) - Water in pipes carried away their garbage and shit so that it was someone else’s problem. ([Location 327](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=327)) - All the studio apartments in my neighborhood are the same as a warm toilet seat. Somebody was there just a second before you and somebody will be there the minute you get up. ([Location 357](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004SOBLIE&location=357))