Exquisite Corpse
A source page for quotes linked to Poppy Z. Brite.
“The thought that it was nearly over soothed him like a lover's touch.”
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”
“If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.”
“With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.”
“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”
“Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.”
“I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?”
“I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.”
“Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.”
“Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”
“My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.”
“Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.”