"There isn't any real you in you," she says. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. ![]() ![]() The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are.And, yes, it's true, not one single guy specifically excludes hideous mutilated girls with growing medical bills. Sister Katherine peers down her nose and through the glasses to read: Guys seeking slim, adventurous girls for fun and romance. ![]() The nurse brings me the personal classified ads from a newsletter.Sometimes the best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize.Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own."The whole time, growing up," Evie says, " I just thought being a woman would be.not such a disappointment."."First," Manus says, "your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."."Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." you owe them your life, and they can control you. Seth says how your being born makes your parents god.Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. "Behind a veil, you're the great unknown," she says. Peeing on every tree and then never calling you back. Especially men can't stand not climbing every mountain, mapping everywhere. People just can't stand not knowing something, she says.The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open" "She has to take a needle and thread and sew herself up" ".When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?.Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.Somewhere in heaven, you're live on a video web site for God to surf.Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says that beautiful people should never date each other.Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. Hysteria is impossible without an audience.Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.Everything mashed or pulverized or crushed. When it's time to reintroduce me to solid foods, their words again, it's pureed chicken and strained carrots.Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? ![]() 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.Probably that goes for killing anyone in the world. Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll.Invisible Monsters (1999) by Chuck Palahniuk, An American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon.
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