All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someoneโs face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someoneโs skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another personโs body at your thrall.
Poppy Z. BriteThe sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.
Poppy Z. BriteCelebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
Poppy Z. BriteSometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.
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