Quotes From "Invisible Monsters" By Chuck Palahniuk

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Chuck Palahniuk

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

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. This is all practice. Chuck Palahniuk

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

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. Chuck Palahniuk

My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate my brother at this moment. I bought this fabric because I thought it would make a nice panel for Shane, " Mom says. "We just ran into some problems with what to sew on it." Give me amnesia. Flash. Give me new parents. Flash. Your mother didn't want to step on any toes, " Dad says. He twists a drumstick off and starts scraping the meat onto a plate. "With gay stuff you have to be so careful since everything means something in secret code. I mean, we didn't want to give people the wrong idea." My Mom leans over to scoop yams onto my plate, and says, "Your father wanted a black border, but black on a field of blue would mean Shane was excited by leather sex, you know, bondage and discipline, sado and masochism." She says, "Really, those panels are to help the people left behind." Strangers are going to see us and see Shane's name, " my dad says. "We didn't want them thinking things." The dishes all start their slow clockwise march around the table. The stuffing. The olives. The cranberry sauce. "I wanted pink triangles but all the panels have pink triangles, " my mom says. "It's the Nazi symbol for homosexuals." She says, " Your father suggested black triangles, but that would mean Shane was a lesbian. It looks like female pubic hair. The black triangle does." My father says, "Then I wanted a green border, but it turns out that would mean Shane was a male prostitute." My mom says, "We almost chose a red border, but that would mean fisting. Brown would mean either scat or rimming, we couldn't figure which." Yellow, " my father says, "means watersports." A lighter shade of blue, " Mom says, "would mean just regular oral sex." Regular white, " my father says, "would mean anal. White could also mean Shane was excited by men wearing underwear." He says, "I can't remember which." My mother passes me the quilted chicken with the rolls still warm inside. We're supposed to sit and eat with Shane dead all over the table in front of us. Finally we just gave up, " my mom says, "and I made a nice tablecloth out of the material." Between the yams and the stuffing, Dad looks down at his plate and says, "Do you know about rimming?" I know it isn't table talk. And fisting?" my mom asks. I say, I know. I don't mention Manus and his vocational porno magazines. We sit there, all of us around a blue shroud with the turkey more like a big dead baked animal than ever, the stuffing chock full of organs you can still recognize, the heart and gizzard and liver, the gravy thick with cooked fat and blood. The flower centerpiece could be a casket spray. Would you pass the butter, please?" my mother says. To my father she says, "Do you know what felching is? . Chuck Palahniuk

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off. Chuck Palahniuk

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? Chuck Palahniuk

People are 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. Chuck Palahniuk

The future is just wasted on some people. Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future. Chuck Palahniuk

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

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you. Chuck Palahniuk

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue. Chuck Palahniuk

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. Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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? Chuck Palahniuk

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. Chuck Palahniuk

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. Chuck Palahniuk

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

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. Chuck Palahniuk

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself. Chuck Palahniuk

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. Chuck Palahniuk

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

We continue to say hi to those we've lost, and for a little while at least, the world down here feels a little less dark. Joshua McCune

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

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

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. Chuck Palahniuk

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. Chuck Palahniuk

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. Chuck Palahniuk