Quotes from book

Invisible Monsters

“I would pay snakes to bite her.”

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”

“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

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

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

“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”

“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”

“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?”

“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”

“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”

“You have to keep recycling yourself.”

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”