"Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."
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Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"Make me into anything, but just love me."
"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 getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."
"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 only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"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?"
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
"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 that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."
"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."