Books of Blood Quotes

“We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“she slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“Its face crinkled up grotesquely, the eyes narrowing like those of a laughing Buddha, the lips peeling back to expose a sickle of brilliant teeth.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“The stench of disinfectant could not entirely mask the odor of human pain.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“She preferred her lovers twenty years Swann's junior—he looked, someone had observed, like a man in mourning for his profile, but his touch promised what no boy could offer. She”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6