attention seeking pathological liar quotes

They made his entire childhood seem like fiction. These revelations struck at the core of Chris' sense of identity. He felt his whole life turn, like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running uphill. Their fraudulent marriage and our father's denial of his other son was, for Chris, a murder of every day's truth. But when it came to my brother, they did not seem to know or care that their course of secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. My parents understood that a fine crystal glass had to be cared for or it may be shattered. The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness. And Mom, in the shame and embarassment of a young mistress, became his accomplice in deceit. Dad's arrogance made him conveniently oblivious to the pain he caused. This fact suddenly redefined Chris and me as bastard children. And even after Chris was born, Dad had had another son with his first wife, Marcia, to whom he was still legally married. He discovered that our parents' stories of how they fell in love and got married were calculated lies masking an ugly truth. In California, he'd looked up some old family friends. As soon as I heard he was home, I ran into his room to talk to him.

Carine McCandless: The year Chris graduated high school, he bought the Datsun used and drove it cross-country.

You're a young guy! Can't be juggling blood and fire all the time! Alex, you're a hell of a young guy, a hell of a young guy.

It's a mistake to get too deep into all that kind of stuff.

Christopher McCandless: You know, parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks.Wayne Westerberg: What 'people' we talking about?.Christopher McCandless: Society, man! You know, society! Cause, you know what I don't understand? I don't understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often.Christopher McCandless: You know, about getting out of this sick society.Maybe when I get back, I can write a book about my travels. You're just there, in that moment, in that special place and time. Christopher McCandless: You're just living, man.What are you doing when we're there? Now you're in the wild, what are we doing? Just be out there in it, you know? In the wild. You know, big mountains, rivers, sky, game. You know, no fucking watch, no map, no axe, no nothing. I'm gonna be all the way out there, all the way fucking out there.

In the city of Alaska, they have markets.

Wayne Westerberg: Alaska, Alaska? Or city Alaska? Because they do have markets in Alaska.

Christopher McCandless: I'm going to Alaska.

What's your fascination with all that stuff?

Attention seeking pathological liar quotes