The Devil from the Deep Quotes

“Syed, I think the shirt is bad for him,” Agoh told me. “I don’t think it’s right for him to practise witchcraft.”
“It’s none of our business,” I countered.
“He’s going mad. He’s going to be a danger to himself and to his troop,” Agoh reasoned.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“His uniform was damaged by the bullets, but not tainted by blood at all. I saw his shirt through the bullet holes in his uniform. He was impenetrable.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“Sarah, turn around,” Hagar whispered. “Look at the end of that wooden platform. In the shadow.”

I turned around and cast my eyes across the water to a darkened corner. On the wooden platform, her face lit from below by the lights, was me.

She looked like me, but she wasn’t me. She stood there, looking at us. The constant companion only appears when trouble is afoot. But he rarely takes the guise of his master. This was the second time he pulled this trick, after Berlin.

And I wasn’t even his master.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“I did go to the Berliner Unterwelten. I couldn’t force myself to approach the main entrance. There he was, the constant companion, standing between me and the entrance. A group of tourists queuing before me took no notice of the fearsome oddity. No one else saw him but me. This had never happened to me before. I tried not to panic.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“I don’t kill people in large numbers like you did. People that never raised a hand at you,” I said, full of disgust. “You weren’t forced to kill. You loved to kill. Your sadism was contagious, like an infectious disease. It knows no bounds. You break people, you put them together broken, and they become your shadow long after you’re dead. Your wickedness infects one generation after another. You’re the true face of evil.”
I stepped forward. He stepped back. His furry hooves clacked on the floor. He appeared uglier now that I could scan the whole of his body. Top half a soldier with the face blown off; the bottom half a goat.
What a sight. This was his form in the afterlife.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“What do you think of Chin Peng?” Hagar asked him, pointing to the TV screen with the remote control.
“Chin Peng? What about him?”
“He wants to come home but he’s not allowed to.”
“The war is over. We signed the Hat Yai Treaty.”
“Does that mean he can come home?”
“Why shouldn’t he? It’s been 27 years.”
“Is that your opinion as a veteran? You were a soldier. You fought against the Communists.”
Our father stopped to look at Hagar, his face serious. “The war is over,” he stressed. “We stood down.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales