Ryan

“You do an awfully good impression of yourself.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me. But they were also about control: you were a voyeur sitting in the dark staring at secret things, because that’s what movies were—scenes you shouldn’t be seeing and that no one on the screen knew you were watching.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“Then I noticed the pack of cigarettes in my other pocket. I took one out and started smoking. I felt like a man who settles down for a smoke after finishing a job of work. I wanted to live.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“fear started overriding my sadness: who deserved anything? We get what we get.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards