Beneath The Surface of Clive Barker's Abarat Quotes

“Christopher Carrion is me. Christopher Carrion is a man who has had love in his life and that love has not always been good with him. Christopher Carrion is a man who has nightmares but eats them. Christopher Carrion is a man who is very lonely a lot of the time. Christopher Carrion is a man who people look at very strangely sometimes and they are very quiet around him... Christopher Carrion is intimidating, Christopher Carrion is frightening, but, as you very well know, behind closed doors, Christopher Carrion is sad and alone and Christopher Carrion wants very much to be redeemed, he just doesn't know how to be redeemed.”
― Clive Barker, Beneath The Surface of Clive Barker's Abarat

“I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.”
― Clive Barker, Beneath The Surface of Clive Barker's Abarat

“Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now, we've got being alive now and we have to be awake and alive in the moment and not asleep in our lives. And they would find the idea of sleeping through your life, of being bored - they would think that was very stupid - why would you be bored when there's so much to do and so much to see and so much to be?”
― Clive Barker, Beneath The Surface of Clive Barker's Abarat