102 Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

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 and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

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.

I can’t heal your pain but I can see it. And you don’t have to be lost. Not forever.

If you want something, you don’t wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

I’m your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you’ve become one?