INVISIBLE MONSTERS - CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Invisible Monsters - Pg 295

   You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 294

   Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.
   Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 276

   Go figure, but Texans seem to be a lot more comfortable around disastrous house fires than they are around anal sex.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 273

   That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 264

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

Invisible Monsters - Pg 261

   "I'm not straight, and I'm not gay," she says. "I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure."
   A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my veils. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 175

   "Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you.
   "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better."

Invisible Monsters - Pg 121

   All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?

Invisible Monsters - Pg 119

   Thick black hair like Manus  has, it reminds you how people's hair is just vestigial fur with mousse on it. Such a sexy hair dog, Manus is.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 76

   Abraham Lincoln is in heaven to make our car a floating bubble of new-car—smelling air: driving as smooth as advertising copy. These days, Brandy says Marlene Dietrich is in charge of the weather. Now is the autumn of our ennui.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 61

   "When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

Invisible Monsters - Pg 50

   I saw my blood and snot and teeth splashed all over the dashboard the moment after the accident, but hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 48

   I look at the nun's wedding ring and write: 
   i guess you got the last really buff guy.

Invisible Monsters - Pg 47

   God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love.
   Flash.
   Angels in heaven should blow kisses the way Brandy Alexander does and lights up the rest of my week.