Evan

“...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.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.”
― David Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go