"On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour" -Patrick Bateman (page 386)
" I was freaked out by the park bench that followed me for six blocks last Monday evening and it too spoke to me." -Patrick Bateman (page 395)
"I had all the characteristics of a human being-flesh, blood, skin, hair-but but depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure." -Patrick Bateman (page 282)
"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 not there." -Patrick Bateman (page376)
"With the blood of from one of the corpses' stomachs I dip my hand into, I scrawl, in dripping red letters above the faux-cowhide paneling in the living room, the words I AM BACK and below it a scary drawing which looks like this" -Patrick Bateman (page306)
"Though I'm satisfied with at first by my actions, I'm suddenly jolted with a mournful despair at how useless, how extraordinarily painless, it is to take a child's life. This thing before me, small and twisted and bloody, has no real history, no worthwhile past, nothing is really lost. It's so much worse (and more pleasurable) taking the life of someone who has hit his or her prime, who has the beginnings of a full history...whose death will upset far more people whose capacity for grief is limitless than a child's would, perhaps ruin many more lives than just the meaningless, puny death of this boy." -Patrick Bateman (page 299)
"I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends. " I shrug.
"Do you like it?" She asks, unfazed.
"Um...It depends. Why?" I take a bite of sorbet.
"Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it," she says.
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