Quotes from Invisible Monsters

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Invisible Monsters

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