# Quote — Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

> Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

- Author: [Katherine Dunn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn.md)
- Book: [Geek Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn#Geek_Love_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/can-you-be-happy

## More from this book

> The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/the-molasses-voice.md)

> And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/and-they-looked.md)

> Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/papa-had-looked.md)