My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
Poppy Z. BriteIn high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
Poppy Z. BriteIf youโre 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.
Poppy Z. BriteAll 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.
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