Norman Bates quotes from Bates Motel

Norman

Mom?

Norman Bates

[to Emma] Maybe you're right. Maybe this is real. But finding out what happened to this girl isn't gonna make a difference to anyone. She's still gonna be dead, you're still gonna be sick, and I'm still gonna be who I am.

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I like doing taxidermy. It's sort of "building" stuff, just rebuilding something you take apart first.

Norman Bates

[in the 'Mother' persona, to Caleb] You raped me over and over. I was your little sister. I loved you. You should have protected me because I had no one to protect me.

Norman Bates

If someone's always looking at you like you've done something wrong, talking to you like you've done something wrong, treating you like you've done something wrong, I mean, you start to believe that you've done something wrong!

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[to his dead dog] The world's a lonely place sometimes, isn't it, Juno?

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[to Norma] I'm afraid of you and I love you, and that's a bad combination. I don't think you're in your right mind. And you're trying to sabotage me.

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We just don't belong in this world anymore, Mother. We're broken. We've tried. We want peace and happiness, but the world just won't allow it. So let's take ourselves out of the equation. Because whatever there is after this, we will have peace. And we will be together. We can have peace, and we can be happy. You just have to trust me.

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I have reason to believe that my mother is insane and might be killing people.

Norman Bates

I don't know how I got here or or what happened before. I just I just black out, and, and maybe because it's because I'm crazy or something. I-I-I don't know, but I can't do this anymore, because I am tired and scared. [crying] I'm so scared, and, and I don't trust what I think is real, and so, if you could help me, then, yes, please, please. I'll do anything you say. Please, please, help me. Please.

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[leaving a message for Norma] Hi, it's me. Um I, uh I just wanted to say that I hope you're doing okay getting through everything, and and I'm sorry. [inhales sharply] I think you were right a-about... I've been confused about things and, uh... But I'm really working hard to get better now. I really think I can do it. I miss you very much, and I love you.

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[to Edwards, as "Mother"] I don't want him to know these things. It will kill both of us. Please, Doctor, if you have a heart, don't make him remember these things... Or I will have to do something about it.

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He has got a big surprise coming when he realizes just how difficult she can be and how damaged she really is! Everyone sees this part of her that is normal and friendly and happy. But I see what is really there. That she is as frightened and tiny and fragile inside as a baby bird. And that she's lived her whole life that way, because she can just be crushed by disappointment. Oh, but she doesn't let anyone else see that but me. He's got no idea what he's got coming for him. What'll happen next is that he won't measure up to her standards. She'll start to pass judgment on him. Not like this or that. She'll criticize him. And after a while, he'll leave. He'll run away. He'll be gone. Her heart will be broken, and then it'll be little old me picking up all the broken pieces If I can.

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[giving Norma's eulogy] My mother was the most wonderful person who ever lived. She was just beautiful beyond words, radiant, half queen, half little girl. She had an innocence to her that illuminated everything that she did, everything that she touched, every word that she said. She was like a miracle. And I miss her. I miss... I miss her. I miss her so, so terribly. I... I just can't believe she left. She was not supposed to leave me. And I know that they say that God has a plan and that we have and we have to trust that. We have to trust the plan. [angrily, to Norma's portrait] Well, it would be nice to know what the hell that plan is. I guess nobody thought telling me that would be important. I'm just supposed to figure this shit out by myself!

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Mother, I have really had enough of this. If you're angry and you're just punishing me, then you win. You win. I'm sorry. Would you just please come back now? You can't just leave me here, Mother. You can't just leave me here alone in this abyss where I can't find you!