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1 " It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria. "
― Adam Nevill , The Ritual
2 " He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage. "
― Adam Nevill , Apartment 16
3 " He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic. "
4 " Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe. "
5 " From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder. "
6 " Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it. "
7 " ...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. "
― Adam Nevill , Last Days
8 " For Anne and our cub,for making me and my life less beastly "
9 " The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons. "
― Adam Nevill , House of Small Shadows
10 " But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history... "
11 " After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats! "
12 " It was as if they had made themselves deliberately grotesque. "
13 " Es hätte alles so schön sein können. Ein bisschen billige Psychotherapie, angereichert mit mittelalterlichen Ideen von Askese und Frömmigkeit. Ein Leben ohne falschen Stolz und Egoismus. Das jedenfalls waren die ursprünglichen Ideale. Alles eingehüllt in allerlei Mystizismus, damit es toll aussah. "
14 " Over there, Dante, are three clever debunkers. You know what a debunker is? A person who lacks imagination, Dante. Who can only thrive in the world. Their dull creed replaced spirituality with a new god of economics. But what has that achieved? People are dissatisfied, bored, unfulfilled. Those three can do nothing but mock the intuitive and the creative. Like us, Dante, who flee the everyday world and seek a meaning through our endeavours. We are the fortunate ones. "
― Adam Nevill , Banquet For the Damned
15 " Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. "
16 " Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. "
17 " The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid. "
― Adam Nevill , Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
18 " Only the monstrous could ever be ascendant. Sadists and sociopaths had completely enslaved us and removed any chance of inner or spiritual life. The inmost light had been doused within a whole species. "
― Adam Nevill , Hasty for the Dark
19 " Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human. "
20 " What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am. "
