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101 " Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
102 " When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity. "
103 " New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling. "
104 " So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids. "
105 " Birds ate my face. "
106 " All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I’ll get on with my life. "
107 " Now is the autumn of our ennui. "
108 " We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. "
109 " They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue. "
110 " Just because it's anal intercourse doesn't mean it's not love. "
111 " Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars. "
112 " How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus? "
113 " There isn't any real you in you," she says, "Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years. "
114 " You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die. "
115 " In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted limousine window. The unlisted number for your face. Behind a good veil, you could be anyone. "
116 " It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain. "
117 " It happens fast for some people and slow for other, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated "
118 " I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. "
119 " When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you’re less than the sum of your parts. "
120 " Quand'è che il futuro è passato da essere una promessa a essere una minaccia? "