Fight Club - Chloe

“ Chloe was the genuine article.
Chloe was the way Joni Mitchell's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around a party being extra special nice to everyone. Picture Chloe's popular skeleton the size of an insect, running through the vaults and galleries of her innards at two in the morning. Her pulse a siren overhead, announcing: Prepare for death in ten, in nine, in eight seconds. Death will commence in seven, six . . .
At night, Chloe ran around the maze of her own collapsing veins and burst tubes spraying hot lymph. Nerves surface as trip wires in the tissue. Abscesses swell in the tissue around her as hot white pearls.
The overhead announcement, prepare to evacuate bowels in ten, in nine, eight, seven.
Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.
Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep backup of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.
Death will commence in five.
Five, four.
Four.
Around her, parasitic life spray paints her heart.
Four, three.
Three, two.
Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curdled lining of her own throat.
Death to commence in three, in two.
Moonlight shines in through the open mouth.
Prepare for the last breath, now.
Evacuate.
Now.
Soul clear of body.
Now.
Death commences.
Now.
Oh, this should be so sweet, the remembered warm jumble of Chloe still in my arms and Chloe dead somewhere.
Oh, this should be so sweet. For two years, Chloe's been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. Oh, the proof that one day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet. This is the amazing miracle of death, and it should be so sweet if it weren't for, oh, that one.”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Nature Quotes

"They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy."
-Star Richés

"The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is life giving and warmth giving and happiness giving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving."
-Jessi Lane Adams

"Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape."
-Jareb Teague

"I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time."
-Emily Dickinson

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?"
-Mathew Arnold

"The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian."
-Pepper Giardino

"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
-Dogen

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright