Request for favorite quotes!
Hey everyone,
We're doing some late Summer renovations at The Cult and one of the sections we would like to improve upon is our Book sections. We never had a great Quotes addition to each book section. Rather, I had to do outside links to other fan pages that had compiled their list of quotes. But many of these fan sites are no long gone, rendering the link defunct on our end.
So we need you to help us out! Everyone post their favorite INVISIBLE MONSTERS quotes in this thread as replies. After a week or so, we'll take all the quotes and compile them a new quotes sub-section for the respective master section.
Thanks!
Wanna have the pants scared off you in 90 seconds?
Watch 'Laundry Day', my new horror short:
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
This one is priceless:
"You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night"..."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 it up and throw your past in the trashcan...then we'll figure out who you're going to be." pg 61
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"You know how you look at ugly hunchback girls, and they are so lucky. Nobody drags them out at night so they can't finish their doctorate thesis papers. They don't get yelled at by fashion photographers if they get infected ingrown bikini hairs. You look at burn victims and think how much time they save no looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage."
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
“All god does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
"...some famous fashion photographer telling me how to feel.
him yelling, give me lust baby.
flash.
give me malice.
flash.
give me detached existentialist ennui.
flash.
give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism."
"Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize."
"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
"That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire."
"When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge."
"I remember all of his porn magazines, and all the details of anal, oral, rimming, fisting, felchng. You could put yourself in the hospital trying to self-suck."
"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend"
"I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."
"Caged behind my silk, settled inside my cloud of organza and georgetta, the idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
"Thank you for not sharing"
"I did it because I'm a dirty dog"
"Bump," he says, "I think 'fletching' id the word your mother meant."
"We are all self-composting."
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."
"Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo, and Ringer - it's a fun-fur holocaust."
"It's just such a big commitment," Brandy says. "being a girl, you know. Forever."
"I'm only doing this because it's just the biggest mistake I can think to make."
"Anything we want, we're trained to want."
"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"You look at burn victims and think how much time they save not looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage."
"Find what you're afraid of most and go live there."
Falling feels like flying
Until you hit the ground
I have this one scrawled on my wall with black charcoal...
"Only when we eat up this planet will god give us another. We will be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
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*Dances on the spot whimpering 'ohmigodohmigod'* "
"What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody."- pg 266
For the loveless
For the risks we take
I'll take my love
To the grave.- Converge
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by H.D.Thoreau [/i]
[B]This one is priceless:
"You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night"..."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 it up and throw your past in the trashcan...then we'll figure out who you're going to be." pg 61
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Agreed. Big time.
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Another I haven't seen yet:
"...each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead."
I Like to Write Columns About Stuff
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(the last one is my favorite)
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?
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Oh, and this goes way beyond sorry, Mom. Sorry, God. At this point, I'm not sorry for anything. Or anybody.
Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.
I told you! I spent last summer with my uncle hunting wolverines!
Nobody is all the way dead yet but lets just say the clock is ticking. pp15
Another thing is no matter how much you think you love sombody, you'll step back when a pool of their blood edges up too close. pp16
Conditions change and we mutate. pp81
Santa Clause us just a story. He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Clause.
Its not that we don't love you, it's just that we dont show it. pp100
The future is just wasted on some people. pp102
I'd smile too, you know, if i had any lips pp103
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We will be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. pp104
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves
Even if i overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You cant kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. Ill be anyone you want me to be.
This only looks like generosity
It wasnt horrible, but it wasnt love
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
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This is [B]sheenUGH[/B].
"When did the future went from being a promise to become a threat?"
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Out of all the Palahniuk novels, I couldn't think of a character that embodies me more than Shannon - that made it incredibly difficult to select a single quote, but this one is particularly poignant for me personally...
"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."
Shit, I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't quote it right, but the part about the realtor opting not to "watch a monster poop into a seashell" had me laughing like a madman.
give me a face. Flash
i still find the funny
It’s all a dream until you wake up and realize that you never slept last night and that’s real blood on your hands. The axe you can see in the corner of your eye, that’s your axe. You used it last night when you killed her. It all comes flooding back. Now you start thinking.
Where’s the body?
Can it be traced to me?
Who the fuck did I kill?
What’s happening to me?
I didn’t do this shit, did I?
Some of my favorites that I'm pretty sure weren't mentioned before:
"I was tired of staying a lower life form just because of my looks. Trading on them. Cheating. Never getting anything real accomplished, but getting the attention and recognition anyway. Trapped in a beauty ghetto is how I felt. Stereotyped. Robbed of my motivation."
"We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody."
""I'm not straight, and I'm not gay," she says. "I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else , unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure." A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable."
"While Manus was still fighting crime, I found him cutting the crust off a slice of bread one morning. Bread without crust made me remember being little. This was so sweet, but I thought he was making me toast. Then Manus goes to in front of a mirror in the apartment we used to share, wearing his white speedo, and he asks, if I were a gay guy would I want to bang him up the butt? Then he changed to a red speedo and asked again. You know, he says, really stuff his poop chute? Plow the cowboy? It's not a morning I would want on video."
"And I want Seth dead. Worse than dead, I want him fat and bloated with water and insecure and emotional. If Seth doesn't want me, I want to not want him."
"The future is just wasted on some people."
i put little "x"s on the corners of all the pages that i like in Chuck Palahniuk books.
--- there's just always something i fall in love with.INVISIBLE MONSTERS had a lot:
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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense 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."
"On game shows, some people will take the trip to france, but most people will take the washer dryer pair." "'It's just that people want to something to show for their effort,' Seth says. 'Like the pharaohs and their pyramids.'"
"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?" "Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
"The word love tastes like earwax when I think it about [them]."
"When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people."
"What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody."
"The studio audience ignores her, watching themselves on the monitor, trapped in the reality loop of watching themselves watch themselves, trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out exactly who that person is."
"That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm it's mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire."
"And married people always think love is the answer."
"Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better."
"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in the event, who wants one?"
"I do," Dunbar told him.
"Why?" Clevinger asked.
"What else is there?"
- Catch 22
"Anything you can do is old and boring and perfectly okay."
"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. Take me apart, but just love me."
and
"I have no native tongue"
"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"
"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"
"I'm only doing this because it's just the biggest mistake I can think to make. It's stupid and destructive, and anybody you ask will tell you it's wrong. That's why I have to go through with it. Don't you see? Because we're trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life."
"A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable."
"I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone."
Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly what it looks like!
"Birds Ate My Face" ~ Invisible Monsters
Lily
Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
I might have gotten the order screwed up.
so here i go...
i'm haLf the way to home...
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