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“If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.”
― American Skin
― American Skin
“I'm not sure what I am. I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got. Nothing else could love me, not even... especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else... someone. It's like the mask is slipping and things... people... who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me.”
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
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