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Quotes
Invisible Monsters
Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
There is an age when a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
Thank you for not sharing.
"Birds ate it," I wanted to tell them. Birds ate my face.
And married people always think love is the answer.
You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate.
Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.
Sorry, Mom. Sorry, God.
Most times, it's just a lot easier to not let the world know what's wrong.
Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
You have to keep recycling yourself.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me.
The most boring thing in the entire world, is nudity.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying.
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
Do the things that scare you the most.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.
You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.
And this is what I kept telling myself was love.
It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love.
My brother wants to marry me.
Our real discoveries come from chaos.
Anything we want, we're trained to want.
I considered AIDS, for the experience, but then everybody had AIDS and it looked so mainstream and trendy.
You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
Your birth is a mistake you will spend your whole life trying to correct.
You spend your whole life becoming God and then you die.
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
...The only vagina worth having is the kind you buy yourself.
Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.
I wanted the opposite of a miracle.
I wanted the everyday reassurance of being mutilated.
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an opportunity for something better than I ever imagined.
The truth is I'm sorry.
There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going.
Completely and totally, permanently and without hope, forever and ever I love Brandy Alexander.
Invisible Monsters, quotes and everything else belongs to Chuck Palahniuk. |