Quotes from the Book

It can't rain all the time.
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.
It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...
Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.
When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...
Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.
Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.
Sometimes I dream of sleepiness, sometimes I feel like I'm alive.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?
Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.
Eric screams and screams and pounds his head against the wall until phantom fire trucks race across his vision. All he wants is pain. Pain and hate. Yes, hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.
...the girl.. her name was Shelly...
Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...
He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.

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