“I came to understand that these memories were my salvation. I no longer wanted to know why I had done such things if it meant I wouldn't want to do them anymore. I put my notebooks aside forever. I was different, and that was all. I had always know I was different; I could not trudge through life contentedly chewing whatever cud I found in my mouth, as those around me seemed to do.”

Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z. Brite Recommended by Ghost.

“I've got to get out of this place, he thought just before dawn, and the ghosts of all the decades of middle-class American children afraid of complacency and stagnation and comfortable death drifted before his face, whispering their agreement...”

Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite

“I believe in whatever gets you through the night. Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four AM knows all my secrets. Four AM is when my dreams die.”

Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite