#Bret easton ellis

[couchsterfield]

[quotemadness]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis

[bandoftheives]

crazy how donna tartt (author of the secret history) and bret easton ellis (author of american psycho) went to the same college (bennington) AND were good friends and then went on to write two of the most misinterpreted satire novels by the media

[obsessioncollector]

He was real for this

[femmehysteria]

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Collection of chapter titles

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I THOUGHT OF YOU." // CLOSE, BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH

Adrianne Lenker anything // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Ingmar Bergman from a letter to Liv Ullmann // Sonya Vatomsky Salt Is For Curing // Isaac Marion Warm Bodies // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Richard Siken Crush // Leah Horlick For Your Own Good // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Roland Barthes A Lover's Discourse: Fragments // Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction // Thomas E. Yingling "My Way Home is Through You," Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text: New Thresholds, New Anatomies // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Adrianne Lenker anything // Frank Bidart "Guilty of Dust," Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 // Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma // Yrsa Daley-Ward Bone

[minimalist-quotes]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

-Bret Easton Ellis

[feyswilde]

mama a girl behind YOU 💜

[fluffishere]

[derangedrhythms]

[...] and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, from 'The Rules of Attraction'

[quotefeeling]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[couchsterfield]

[perfectquote]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[gxxdomen]

I forgor I made a patrick bateman and paul all*n edit with a song that played in the book during his murder have fun

[thehopefulquotes]

…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

[maitredorsia]

I was scrolling Pinterest as I often do, and came across the following image (Don't have an original source for it, if anybody knows please tell me!), and noticed that some parts of the text (marked for convenience) are very familiar...

But I've never seen this before. And then it hits me - I've read this near-verbatim just this morning!

This image as the source for Patrick's narration here can be further confirmed by noting that the suit in the image is from Alan Flusser, as is Patrick's; despite the lack of a pocket square and the differences in tie and shoe choice.

It's well established that Bateman reads books about fashion and is an avid reader of GQ etcetera so this tracks. This backs up my theory that many of the outfit descriptions and style rules in the book come straight from magazine editorials and style books.

Lazy writing? Or demonstrating how obsessed Patrick is with fashion trends? In my opinion, probably both. It definitely succeeds in regard to the second question.

So there you go! Very exciting discovery for me!