Quotes from The Strain

“...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Neeva looked at the puddle of Christ's tears on the floor. When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“What you fought was a dead man, possessed by a disease.' - Setrakian
'What--like a pinche zombie?' - Gus
'Think more along the lines of a man with a black cape. Fangs. Funny accent. Now take away the cape and fangs. The funny accent. Take away anything funny about it.' - Setrakian”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Nothing can unman you like an un-man.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“The term “solar eclipse” is in fact a misnomer. An eclipse occurs when one object passes into a shadow cast by another. In a solar eclipse, the moon does not pass into the sun’s shadow, but instead passes between the sun and the earth, obscuring the sun—”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“The proper term is “occultation.” The moon occults the sun, casting a small shadow onto the surface of the earth. It is not a solar eclipse, but in fact an eclipse of the earth.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Guy keeps the heart of a vampire he killed as a pet in his basement armory. He's plenty crazy. But that's okay. I'm a little crazy too.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“The doctor’s code is, ‘First—do no harm.’ The politician’s code is, ‘First—go on television.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“This is what the beginning of the end of the world will look like”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Gus called Felix’s name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Užtemimas jiems buvo nuostabumo priešingybė. Atrodė paprasčiausiai teisinga, kad dangus ir Dievas paminėjo jų sielvartą.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“It is the concern of every immigrant that their offspring will grow to embrace their adoptive culture at the expense of their natural heritage.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Zombie Sky. No: Zombies of the Eclipse. Zombies of the Occultation. Occult Zombies from the Planet Moon!”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to do during the 'totality'. The television also told her she wouldn't age if she bought expensive creams and pills.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Can you zoom in?” The foreman rolled his eyes. “This here ain’t CSI—it’s Radio-fucking-Shack.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Nora said, “I thought vampires drank virgin blood. They hypnotize…they turn into bats…” Setrakian said, “They are much romanticized. But the truth is more…how should I say?” “Perverse,” said Eph. “Disgusting,” said Nora.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness … The”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

“I guess a vampire doesn’t have much need for good hygiene.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain

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― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence

“At the end of that class Demian said to me thoughtfully: "There’s something I don’t like about this story, Sinclair. Why don’t you read it once more and give it the acid test? There’s something about it that doesn’t taste right. I mean the business with the two thieves. The three crosses standing next to each other on the hill are almost impressive, to be sure. But now comes this sentimental little treatise about the good thief. At first he was a thorough scoundrel, had committed all those awful things and God knows what else, and now he dissolves in tears and celebrates such a tearful feast of self-improvement and remorse! What’s the sense of repenting if you’re two steps from the grave? I ask you. Once again, it’s nothing but a priest’s fairy tale, saccharine and dishonest, touched up with sentimentality and given a high edifying background. If you had to pick a friend from between the two thieves or decide which one you’d rather trust, you most certainly wouldn’t choose the sniveling convert. No, the other fellow, he’s a man of character. He doesn’t give a hoot for ‘conversion’, which to a man in his position can’t be anything but a pretty speech. He follows his destiny to it’s appointed end and does not turn coward and forswear the devil, who has aided and abetted him until then. He has character, and people with character tend to receive the short end of the stick in biblical stories. Perhaps he’s even a descendant of Cain. Don’t you agree?"

I was dismayed. Until now I had felt completely at home in the story of the Crucifixion. Now I saw for the first time with how little individuality, with how little power of imagination I had listened to it and read it. Still, Demian’s new concept seemed vaguely sinister and threatened to topple beliefs on whose continued existence I felt I simply had to insist. No, one could not make light of everything, especially not of the most Sacred matters.

As usual he noticed my resistance even before I had said anything.

"I know," he said in a resigned tone of voice, "it’s the same old story: don’t take these stories seriously! But I have to tell you something: this is one of the very places that reveals the poverty of this religion most distinctly. The point is that this God of both Old and New Testaments is certainly an extraordinary figure but not what he purports to represent. He is all that is good, noble, fatherly, beautiful, elevated, sentimental—true! But the world consists of something else besides. And what is left over is ascribed to the devil, this entire slice of world, this entire half is hushed up. In exactly the same way they praise God as the father of all life but simply refuse to say a word about our sexual life on which it’s all based, describing it whenever possible as sinful, the work of the devil. I have no objection to worshiping this God Jehovah, far from it. But I mean we ought to consider everything sacred, the entire world, not merely this artificially separated half! Thus alongside the divine service we should also have a service for the devil. I feel that would be right. Otherwise you must create for yourself a God that contains the devil too and in front of which you needn’t close your eyes when the most natural things in the world take place.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Demian

“It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

“Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada.”
― Stefan Zweig, quote from Schachnovelle

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