“I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies...
"In the Hills, the Cities”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Especially politics; that was the best trough to wallow in. You could get your snout, eyes, head and front hooves in that mess of muck and have a fine old time splashing around. It was an inexhaustible subject to devour, a swill with a little of everything in it, because everything, according to Judd, was political.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Minds weren't pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked "Cunning," the next, "Impressionable." They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Si el amor se alimenta de música, seguid tocando"
(Shakepeare)”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“The carcass closest to him was the remains of the pimply youth he'd seen in Car One. The body hung upside-down, swinging back and forth to the rhythm of the train, in unison with its three fellows; an obscene danse macabre. Its arms dangled loosely from the shoulder joints, into which gashes an inch or two deep had been made, so the bodies would hang more neatly.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Lo tocó como nunca antes se había atrevido a hacerlo, acariciando su cuerpo con la punta de los dedos muy, muy suavemente, recorriendo la piel levantada como una mujer ciega leyendo braille.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“...es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“Logic is the last refuge of a coward.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
“He was to be used to record their testaments. He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood. She thought of the grimoires that had been made of dead human skin: she'd seen them, touched them. She thought of the tattoos she'd seen: freak show exhibits some of them, others just shirtless laborers in the street with a message to their mothers pricked across their backs. It was not unknown, to write a book of blood.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volume One
Clive Barker
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“He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow & Claw
“Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his.
His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.”
― Holly Black, quote from Valiant
“It's a good thing Jack was no longer in my hands, because I would've pulled a full-on Kylo Ren temper tantrum.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Hammer of Thor
“Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?’ asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; ‘for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain, when God who gave shall demand His own again.’ Marriage”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Six Wives of Henry VIII
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from Letters to a Young Poet
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