The Parasite Quotes

“What do you think of Jack?”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“the most enjoyable Western she knew and one of the most fruitful to analyze, but her students could see only John Wayne’s politics: his presence wiped out the rest of the film for them, destroyed its personality. “But one has to take their feelings into account,” she said.”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“far softer than putty, indeed, to be able to do to her what they began to do then.”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“On Aigburth Road, wind was doing its best to direct the shoppers, but failed to throw Rose under a car. Layer on layer of dark cloud piled up like sediment at the horizon. Against the sky trees glared, bunches of frayed rusty wire. Birds were scraps of light high overhead, in danger of being blown out. Above a church doorway a Virgin and Child were caged by wire netting, which rattled as though they were trying to escape.”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“Everything was real except her.”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“personal expression … book lacks the disciplines of semiology”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite

“As the light wavered into the rooms, they looked impossibly large with darkness, which seemed less still than it ought to be.”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Parasite