Chuck Palahniuk's 'The Chaser'

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John Collier would strongly agree with Chuck Palahniuk’s quote. It states, “The person you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” Palahniuk seems to be saying, “The person that you think you love and the person who thinks they love you are never the exact same person.” Collier’s story, “The Chaser,” has a character named Alan who believes he is in love with a girl who does not even know he exists. In an attempt to make her love him, Alan buys a love potion. “Yes, she will want to be everything to you.”
“She is, already. Only she doesn’t care about it.”
The girl Alan loves, Diana, is probably in love herself. Alan assumes that Diana does not care about his feelings for her because she does not give him the time

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