Patrick Bateman Quotes: 17 Toxically Evil Quotes From Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho

“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”

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“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”

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“She’s barely gained consciousness and when she sees me, standing over her, naked, I can imagine that my virtual absence of humanity fills her with mind-bending horror.”

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“I think a lot of snowflakes are alike and I think a lot of people are alike too.”

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“I … want … to … fit … in.”

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“You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood.”

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“I’m utterly insane and I like to dissect girls.”

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“When we look up at the clouds she sees an island, a puppy dog, Alaska, a tulip. I see, but don’t tell her, a Gucci money clip, an ax, a woman cut in two, a large puffy white puddle of blood that spreads across the sky, dripping over the city, onto Manhattan.”

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“I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to…”

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“We buy balloons, we let them go.”

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“… There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am…”

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“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being— flesh, blood, skin, hair— but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, th…”

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“You don’t know what torture is. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You really don’t know what you’re talking about.”

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“People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.”

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“And later my macabre joy sours and I’m weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing ‘I just want to be loved,’ cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer— all of it was wrong,…”

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“In the kitchen I try to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body, then I rest by watching a tape of last week’s new CBS sitcom, Murphy Brown.”

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“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”

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