If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? - Chuck Palahniuk

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.

The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor. Every day, just you living means the misery and death of plants and animals- and even some people. "Slaughterhouses, factory farms, sweatshops," she says, "like it or not, that's what your money buys."