Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!

Ooh, the silent treatment.

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

I'm not a person who likes to confront.

When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold.

I don't like confrontation. I don't care about it. If someone tries it with me, they will be talking to themselves because I don't listen.

There's always someone out there being mean, but what upsets me is the spite. Why are you like that? Why are you so horrible?

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.