Invisible Monsters

by Chuck Palahniuk

There’s an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

I’m living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

“Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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

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

It’s the opposite of following your bliss. Brandy tells me, “Do the things that scare you the most.”

Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.

I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.

Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.