Abarat Quotes

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“I am not your Father. I am but a child, like you. Afraid, like you. Fearing sometimes, as you fear.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“You opened their eyes to another world, darling. They'll never forgive you for that.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
Fish, be flies.
Girls, take beards.
Sons, be your mothers.
The future of the world now lies
In coral wombs behind our eyes.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight

“Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight