The Reddening Quotes

“The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest forests.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“But they’re not all the same, the things in that black place. There’s something much bigger than the red people. It has a dark face . . . And there’s these white things, like big rats . . . They all walk like them little dogs you see in a circus, on their back legs, but they’re bigger than bears. Devils. It’s like I’m dreaming of devils.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“When the police located his car near the bridge they’d assumed the obvious. His camping gear had been stuffed inside the boot. There had been no note, which was odd, and Lincoln’s body was never found. But bodies weren’t always recovered when people jumped from that bridge, the police had told her and her mum.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“Bad memories never died. They only blurred, became smooth and heavy and not so spiky and sharp.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“I think a person who’s had a bad time of it makes a particular kind of impression.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, The Reddening

“From end to end, history was collected horror, preserved for the fascination of a bestial species.”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening

“She’d fled with the red people from a place where all had shown the silver moon their devil faces.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, The Reddening

“Going back to Devon, Sisco, then I promise to check in with Ma. Have some amazing recordings from South Dartmoor and Brickburgh. Going back for more. A website, GaiaCries, are going to post my collection. The best bits. I’m getting an album on there! An album! This stuff is so freaky they thought I’d faked it. It’s better than anything I’ve heard on their site, recorded in all those train tunnels, nuclear bunkers and disused mines. Think I’m only happy inside a tent too, Sisco. I have been in a state of ecstasy and awe in Brickburgh all summer. And no, it’s not only down to the weed ;-) Have uploaded some stuff for you to play to the baby – seals in a cove [here]. Promise I’ll call mum. Lin xxxxxxx”
― Adam Nevill, The Reddening