just finished this book & loved it

• p. 16- It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power
• p. 103- On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair.
• p. 103- Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
• p. 103- When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• p. 104- When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
• p. 104- Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
• p. 118- It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends.
• p.121- All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
• p. 198- I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
• p. 259- "It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make." So it's the path to the greatest discovery.
• p. 259- It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and two legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want we're trained to want.
• p. 261- "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."
• p. 264- Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
• p. 264- When you don't share your problems you resent hearing the problems of other people.
• p. 264- All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
• p. 269- Give me a complete late-stage revision of my adult life./ Flash./ Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly what it looks like!/ Flash!
• p. 273- That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
• p. 291- I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy.
• p. 294- Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates./ Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
• p. 295- There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.