The Shards

by Bret Easton Ellis

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.

I just scanned the hills, waiting for the sniper to locate me within the scope mounted on top of the rifle, but I wasn’t afraid anymore, because the bullet would actually save me from the rest of the day.

We were lost in the maze of the pantomime.

the book frightened me, as love does, as dreams do,