Adam Nevill > Adam's Quotes

“Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.”
― Adam Nevill, Apartment 16

“After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest forests.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“But they’re not all the same, the things in that black place. There’s something much bigger than the red people. It has a dark face . . . And there’s these white things, like big rats . . . They all walk like them little dogs you see in a circus, on their back legs, but they’re bigger than bears. Devils. It’s like I’m dreaming of devils.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“It’s like you said, it’s all about P.R. these days. Brand management. Social networking. The corporatization of our own experience. We’re all our very own communications directors. But what a load of bollocks it all is when you’re faced by something like this.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“Everyone is fucked up, Luke. Damaged. We’re all messed up, underneath. Doesn’t matter what kind of house you live in.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage.”
― Adam Nevill, Apartment 16

“But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history...”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“And I extend this to so many of our corporate leaders. I ask you to draw your eye down to our glorious professional leaders in the commercial arena, in this most material of ages. How many of them should be in charge of anything, let alone other people?”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Some people say the white house on the hill was once a place where old, rich people lived after they retired from owning the industry, the land, the laws, our houses, our town, us.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Sleep: Three Horrors

“Where did fear end and wonder begin?”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“Skeptizismus ist das Privileg derjenigen, die nicht betroffen sind.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species without them?”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid.”
― Adam Nevill, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

“He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he’d been damaged by it, permanently.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“There was simply no preparation in life for the determined madness of others.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“He wondered if they all had been fundamentally damaged by their time in the cult, or whether the association made them irretrievably alien in the ordinary worlds they tried to inhabit.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous. The malignant narcissist. And there are many willing to take the place of a deposed tyrant, to ape them. And the rest of us, down here, cannot discriminate in the choice of our leaders, even if we have anything resembling a real choice. We cannot lead ourselves rationally or humanely or fairly, so we choose the most unscrupulous and egotistical to lead us. Into one war and one holocaust after another.”
― Adam Nevill, Last Days

“How little do we know of anyone, let alone ourselves?”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“Bad memories never died. They only blurred, became smooth and heavy and not so spiky and sharp.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“When the police located his car near the bridge they’d assumed the obvious. His camping gear had been stuffed inside the boot. There had been no note, which was odd, and Lincoln’s body was never found. But bodies weren’t always recovered when people jumped from that bridge, the police had told her and her mum.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual