Chuck Palahniuk Growing Up Quotations

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.