Invisible Monsters

"Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

"All god does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

"Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize."

"When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge."

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend"

"Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

"we're all such products" and "another thing is, no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges too close"

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying."

She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.