# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

> When a normal person, some normal innocent person who sure as hell deserved a lot better, when she comes home from waiting tables all day and finds her husband suffocated in the family car, his bladder leaking, and she screams, this is simply her orbicularis stretched to the very limit.

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Diary](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diary_(novel)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/when-a-normal

## More from this book

> "Leave this island before you can't."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/leave-this-island.md)

> "Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/because-you-believed.md)

> "Dear sweet Peter. Can you feel this?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/diary/dear-sweet-peter.md)