# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

> This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of a goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Survivor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Survivor_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/this-is-fish

## More from this book

> The same way you might look at your leg cut off at the knee and not feel anything at first, maybe this is just shock. But I hope not. I don't want it to wear off. I pray not to feel anything ever again. Because if it wears off, this is all going to hurt so much. This is going to hurt for the rest of my life.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/the-same-way-you.md)

> Everything we can do is wrong as long as we're still alive.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/everything-we-can.md)

> You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/you-realize-that-theres.md)