# Invisible Monsters - Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) - Quotes: 97 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters ## Quotes > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/you-see-i-can.md) > We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/well-be-remembered.md) > The future is just wasted on some people. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-future-is-just.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/i-wanted-to-give.md) > The truth is I was addicted to being beautiful, and that's not something you just walk away from. Being addicted to all that attention, I had to quit cold turkey. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-truth-is-i-was.md) > If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/if-i-cant.md) > The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush are just the genitals of a different life form. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-wild-daisies.md) > Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/only-when-we-eat.md) > A Million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/a-million-fucking.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/dont-do-what.md) > All around us, erosion and insects are just chewing up the world, never mind people and pollution. Everything biodegrades with or without you pushing. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/all-around-us-erosion.md) > You're safe because you're trapped inside your culture. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/youre-safe-because.md) > How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/how-is-it-you.md) > It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under your bed. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/its-not-living.md) > It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/it-wasnt-horrible.md) > What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/what-i-need.md) > People 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/people-all-over.md) > "Birds ate my face." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/birds-ate-my-face.md) > It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/its-because-were.md) > Sometimes the best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/sometimes-the-best.md) > Haute couture and getting hauter. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/haute-couture-and.md) > When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-you-dont.md) > She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around of the base of a penis. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/shed-wear-shades.md) > You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/you-can-only.md) > What I wanted looked more and more like what I'd always been trained to want. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/what-i-wanted.md) > Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/las-vegas-looks.md) > Jump to present time with my folks sitting on lawn chairs at night, and watching these same super-8 movies projected on the white side of the same white house, twenty years later. The house the same, the yard the same, the windows projected in the movies lined up just perfect with the real windows, the movie grass aligned with the real grass, and my movie-projected brother and me being toddlers and running around wild for the camera. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/jump-to-present.md) > "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." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-best-way.md) > Go figure, but Texans seem to be a lot more comfortable around disastrous house fires than they are around anal sex. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/go-figure-but.md) > The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-only-reason.md) > It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way a gun is power. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/its-all-mirror.md) > 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 to whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/be-famous-be-a-big.md) > Our real discoveries come from chaos. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/our-real-discoveries.md) > Anymore, when I see the picture of a twenty-something in the newspaper who was abducted and sodomized and robbed and then killed and here's a front-page picture of her young and smiling, instead of me dwelling on this being a big, sad crime, my gut reaction is, wow, she'd be really hot if she didn't have such a big honker of a nose. My second reaction is I'd better have some good head and shoulder shots handy in case I get, you know, abducted and sodomized to death. My third reaction is, well, at least that cuts down the competition. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/anymore-when-i-see.md) > Make me into anything, but just love me. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/make-me-into.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/no-matter-how.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/thats-what-i-love.md) > Him yelling, Give me lust, baby. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/him-yelling-give.md) > Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/almost-all-the.md) > This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only became fashionable. Those little paper tiger attempts to reject looking good that only end up reinforcing it. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/this-makeover-would.md) > When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-you-go-out.md) > Just remember, the same spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/just-remember-the.md) > "I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/im-an-invisible.md) > Don't you think that somehow television makes us God? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/dont-you-think.md) > Don't expect this to be the kind of story that goes: and then, and then, and then. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/dont-expect-this.md) > All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/all-god-does.md) > Nobody's all-the-way dead yet, but let's just say the clock is ticking. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/nobodys-all-the-way-dead.md) > You know how you look at ugly hunchback girls, and they are so lucky. Nobody drags them out at night so they can't finish their doctorate thesis papers. They don't get yelled at by fashion photographers if they get infected ingrown bikini hairs. You look at burn victims and think how much time they save not looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/you-know-how.md) > Sorry, mom. Sorry, God. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/sorry-mom-sorry.md) > The fashion photographer inside my head, yells: [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-fashion-photographer.md) > The nurse brings me the personal classified ads from a newsletter. Sister Katherine peers down her nose and through the glasses to read: Guys seeking slim, adventurous girls for fun and romance. And, yes, it's true, not one single guy specifically excludes hideous mutilated girls with growing medical bills. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-nurse-brings.md) > "The nun's arrived with the man ad his I.V. stand, a new man with no skin or crushed features or all his teeth bashed out, a man who'd be perfect for me. My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-nuns-arrived.md) > Ancient aboriginal petroglyphs and junk are just whizzing past [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/ancient-aboriginal-petroglyphs.md) > Going outside, the world is all color after the white-on-white of the hospital. It's going over the rainbow. I walk up to a supermarket, and shopping feels like a game I haven't played since I was a little girl. Here are all my favorite name-brand products, all those colors, French's Mustard, Rice A Ronni, Top Ramen, everything trying to catch your attention. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/going-outside-the.md) > A sexual reassignment surgery is a miracle for some people, but if you don't want it, it's the ultimate form of self-mutilation. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/a-sexual-reassignment.md) > Do the things that scare you the most. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/do-the-things.md) > "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." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/and-if-you.md) > And the crowd of shoppers is bailed, leaving just us and the security cameras instead of God watching to catch us when we fuck up. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/and-the-crowd.md) > I wanted the everyday reassurance of being mutilated. The way a crippled deformed birth-defected disfigured girl can drive her car with the windows open and not care how the wind makes her hair look, that's the kind of freedom I was after. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/i-wanted-the.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-same-way.md) > Save the world with some advice from the future. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/save-the-world.md) > Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/nothing-of-you.md) > "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." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-you-understand.md) > Jump to the week after Manus's last visit, last meaning final, when Evie drops by the hospital. Evie looks at the glossies and talks to God and Jesus Christ. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/jump-to-the.md) > "The world," Brandy says, "is your cradle and your trap." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-world-brandy.md) > Evie starts telling me about an idea she has for a remake of Cinderella, only instead of the little birds and animals making her a dress, they do cosmetic surgery. Bluebirds give her a facelift. Squirrels give her implants. Snakes, liposuction. Plus, Cinderella starts out as a lonely little boy. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/evie-starts-telling.md) > Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/your-birth-is-a-mistake.md) > Mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/mostly-what-i-hate.md) > When I met you, I envied you. I coveted your face. I thought that face of yours will take more guts than any sex change operation. It will give you bigger discoveries. It will make you stronger than I could ever be. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-i-met.md) > "Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/whatever-youre-thinking.md) > "Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night." That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me. "When you understand," Brandy says, "that what your 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." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/now-those-plumbago.md) > Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/everybody-here-thinks.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-truth-is-being.md) > "[W]e're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes" Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/w-ere-so-trained.md) > People just can't stand not knowing something, she says. Especially men can't stand not climbing every mountain, mapping everywhere. Labeling everything. Peeing on every tree and then never calling you back. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/people-just-cant.md) > Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. (ch3p32) [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/besides-it-happens.md) > 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. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/another-thing-is-no-matter.md) > When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-did-the.md) > What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock-tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/whats-burning-down.md) > Seth says how your being born makes your parents god. you owe them your life, and they can control you. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/seth-says-how.md) > Evie says that beautiful people should never date each other. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together. You can feel this, Evie says. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/evie-says-that.md) > Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/hysteria-is-impossible.md) > The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-one-you.md) > The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-murderer-the.md) > Somewhere in heaven, you're live on a video web site for God to surf. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/somewhere-in-heaven.md) > When it's time to reintroduce me to solid foods, their words again, it's pureed chicken and strained carrots. Baby foods. Everything mashed or pulverized or crushed. You are what you eat. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-its-time.md) > "She has to take a needle and thread and sew herself up" ".. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open" [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/she-has-to-take.md) > Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anyone in the world. We're all such products. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/shotgunning-anybody-in-this.md) > Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/rip-yourself-open.md) > Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/your-folks-are.md) > "First," Manus says, "your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/first-manus-says.md) > "The whole time, growing up," Evie says, "I just thought being a woman would be...not such a disappointment." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/the-whole-time.md) > You have to keep recycling yourself. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/you-have-to-keep.md) > When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-we-dont.md) > Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/game-shows-are.md) > This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/this-is-the.md) > Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/nothing-of-me-is-original.md)