Brandy Burdick

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul"-- Joyce Carole Oates”
― Joyce Carole Oates

“But there is an influence in the light of the morning that tends to rectify whatever errors of fancy, or even of judgment, we may have incurred during the sun's decline, or among the shadows of the night, or in the less wholesome glow of moonshine.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter

“If I am a witch, then so be it, I said. And I took to eating black things - huitlacoche the corn mushroom, coffee, dark chiles, the bruised part of fruit, the darkest, blackest things to make me hard and strong.”
― Sandra Cisneros Eyes of Zapata

“I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories