Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Quotes

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

The future is just wasted on some people.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.