Poppy Z. Brite citations

“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.”

“He has ''. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' '. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.”

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

“Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.”

“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 vampire.”

“Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.”

“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”

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