Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
– Poppy Z Brite
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- Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one. – Poppy Z Brite
- And what was I if not death’s ghostwriter? – Poppy Z Brite
- The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. – Poppy Z Brite
- I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. – Pat Mora
- As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy. – Judy Purcell
- I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me. – Octavia E Butler
- This isn’t kissing. This is savoring your taste. – Nicole Jordan
- It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings. – Oscar Wilde
- Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow. – Elif Shafak
- Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief. – Hope Mirrlees
- POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am. – Bijou Hunter
- Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. – Atsushi Ohkubo
- Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer’s inner vision. – Debasish Mridha
- In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. – Ilyas Kassam
- All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love. – Alan Cohen
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter F Drucker
- Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. – Charlotte Pearson
- People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain. – Masashi Kishimoto
- I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive – even to come alive. Not loneliness. – Steve Goodier
- You will never know loneliness when you have a dog, when you lose that dog it will be loneliness like you’ve never known. – Michael P Naughton
- Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn’t help it. – Lauren Kate
- Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness? – Bryant McGill
- Loneliness is not lack of company. Loneliness is lack of purpose. – Guillermo Maldonado
- Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- …and my loneliness, always my loneliness – that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. – Tabitha Suzuma
- Only cowards torture women. – Patricia Briggs
- The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. – John Calvin
- Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? – Leo Tolstoy
- They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- To see someone you love in so much pain-”especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied-”was the worst form of torture. – Laura Kreitzer
- The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. – Chuck Palahniuk
- …personal torture instructor…I mean physical therapist. – Simone Elkeles
- Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways. – Corey Ann Haydu
- Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake. – Kristin Cashore
- And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven’t even tried to understand yet. – Nikki Rowe
- Torture. He was torturing her. And she didn’t want it to ever stop. – Rebecca Noon
- The torture is in the anticipation -“ the unknown, the restless sleep, insuppressible urge. – Leia Castle
- Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture. – Jessica E Larsen
- Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. – Frans de Waal