All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.
You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you. - Poppy Z. Brite
You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.
- Poppy Z. Brite
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy … - Poppy Z. Brite
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy …
I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows … - Poppy Z. Brite
I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows …
When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vamp… - Poppy Z. Brite
When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vamp…
I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever. - Poppy Z. Brite
I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you. - Poppy Z. Brite
Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.
If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it. - Poppy Z. Brite
If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. - Poppy Z. Brite
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart an… - Poppy Z. Brite
They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart an…
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