# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

> "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."

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Invisible Monsters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/when-you-understand

## More from this book

> 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)