“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
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Invisible Monsters: A Novel
<p>Love, betrayal, petty larceny, and high fashion fuel this deliciously comic novel from the author of Fight Club.</p> She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge that she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“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?”
“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
“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...”
“My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.”
“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”
“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”
“Make me into anything, but just love me.”
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
“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.”
“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 getti...”
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”