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"He is registering aspects of damnation from the avid faces of the voyeurs as they press around the torture instruments and press against each other in steam, goggle-eyed frottage, hair rising on their fore-arms, breath hot on one another's neck and cheeks. Sometimes the doctor presses a scented handkerchief to his face against an overdose of cologne and rut."-p.161

"'It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'
'Because he got hurt?'
'No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.'"

"Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying."-p.23