How we cite our quotes: (Chapter. Paragraph)
Quote #1
Bob has tits because his testosterone ration is too high. Raise the testosterone level too much, your body ups the estrogen to seek a balance. (2.14)
Bob is an interesting mix of masculine and feminine. He's taken on this more feminine appearance by becoming too macho. It's like when an old arcade machine's score gets so high, it rolls over to zero. Not cool—we were so in the lead.
Quote #2
Huevos, Bob said. Gonads. Nuts. Jewels. Testes. Balls. In Mexico, where you buy your steroids, they call them "eggs." (2.65)
Why do we have so many words for male genitalia? More importantly, why do they all get listed here?
Quote #3
This is better than real life. (2.68)
Bodybuilding creates a kind of artificial reality, where a man is judged based on his own physical accomplishments in beefing up his masculinity as far as it can go. Kind of like fight club, when you think about it.
Quote #4
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. (6.29)
Women. What are they good for? In the world of Fight Club—not much. The two women in the book represent icky stuff, like emotions and feelings. Ew, cooties. There's no room for estrogen when you're throwing elbows and blowing stuff sky high.
Quote #5
You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything. (6.45)
No one likes white bread. But we're not sure if we want to be carved out of wood either. Can't we have a happy medium? Say, a nice multi-grain? Here we see how fight club transforms boys into men. White bread is processed and fake. Wood is real, natural, and manly.
Quote #6
Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. (6.77)
At first, the fight club guys are scared to confront what they fear most. Only after a bloody fight with a stranger do they have the confidence to tackle their true problems.