Invisible Monsters Quotes

• The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Life, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Night, Vegas, Heaven

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Optimistic, Bored

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  History, Remembered

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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• You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Smile, Long, Teeth

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.164, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you understand, 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 up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Stories, Realizing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Hard Times, Past

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• The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Scare, Want, What You Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Baby, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• 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

  Feel Better, Games, Useless

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.31, A&C Black

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• When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Monsters, Self Loathing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Stupid, Discovery

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• 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

  Love, Thinking, Blood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

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• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Happiness, Bad Day, Cutting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Parent, Trying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want Something, Parent, Satan

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Family, God, Home

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• Our real discoveries come from chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Discovery, Chaos

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

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• I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Monsters, Invisible, Incapable

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• Make me into anything, but just love me.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Just Love Me, Big Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.144, Random House

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• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Heart, Practice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.3, Random House

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