Bret Easton Ellis: Trending quotes (page 2)

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”

“My pain is constant and sharp… this confession has meant nothing”

“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”

“And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea…”

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”

“But… what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”

“I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”

“What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?”

“And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention”

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

“Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.”

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”

“I tried 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”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.”

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”