Quotes from book

Invisible Monsters

“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”

“Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.”

“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.”

“You just don’t expect to meet dead people.”

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”

“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?”

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.”

“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

“My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.”

“Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead.
Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

“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.”