Poppy Z. Brite Quotes

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I have overcome most of my fears.

As a stunt woman, I took it upon myself to be a bit of a jock about it. So you wouldn't see me vulnerable, you wouldn't see me hurting or sad because I was there as a professional to do my job. Nobody likes to see a girl get hurt - that's the truth of it - so I had to put them at ease so they would let me do my job.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

Obviously, I'm not a man of steel in that people's words don't affect me. They might hurt me. But I am becoming immune to it as time goes by.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

The fears you run from run to you.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them