Books + Nerds

I'm reading this awesome book right now.

It's called Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.

It's about this girl, who had it all, then had nothing.

She was shot in the mouth and left unable to speak.

The plot is fantastic, but that's not what gets me thinking. What does is:

A) Chuck's style of writing. I love it, and I want to write like him. (And some other person I know xD...)

B) Quotes from the book:

"You have to keep recycling yourself."

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

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

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

This is all so true.

I'm not who I was yesterday, I won't be who am I right now tomorrow. We all change, everyday.

The future looks bleak, maybe it shouldn't come after all.

The Ozone layer, multiple forests, so many species of animals. We've destroyed them all. And none of it can come back. But what are we most remembered for creating? Electricity? Television? Internet?

What about creating ourselves? What happened to originality?

I'm a nerd. Proud to admit it. I host Scrabble parties and I've memorized basically all of the books and movies in Harry Potter.

I can't sing. I can't play musical instruments, yet I want to be a musician SO badly. Proud to admit that too. My flaws give me character. They give me life, instead of giving me perfection.

Perfect is boring.

Try being crazy. You call it immaturity, I call it fun.

Try being quirky. You call it obnoxious, I call it random.

Try being funny. You call it inapropriate, I call it humor.

You and me are different.

I like that.