Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six Quotes

“Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it, most will go on peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, a chosen few, the horrors will come, skipping to fetch them off to the highway of the damned...”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“Nor in prayer either. He had told Billy the truth, about his giving up God when his prayers for his father’s life had gone unanswered. Of such divine neglect was aetheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror.”
― Clive Barker, Books Of Blood Omnibus 2: Volumes 4-6

“Every love story was - at the last - a story of death; this was what the poets insisted. Why should it be any less true the other way about?”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“He kissed her as he worked, and swallowed the pestilence with her spittle; his hands came off her body gritty with her contagious cells. He knew none of this, of course. He was perfectly innocent of what corruption he embraced, and took into himself with every uninspired thrust.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six