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1 " Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world. "
― Clive Barker , Books of Blood, Volume One
2 " I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies..."In the Hills, the Cities "
3 " Logic is the last refuge of a coward. "
4 " En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad. "
5 " There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air. "
6 " He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood. "
7 " Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic. "
8 " Minds weren't pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked "Cunning," the next, "Impressionable." They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable. "
9 " There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs? "
10 " Especially politics; that was the best trough to wallow in. You could get your snout, eyes, head and front hooves in that mess of muck and have a fine old time splashing around. It was an inexhaustible subject to devour, a swill with a little of everything in it, because everything, according to Judd, was political. "
11 " Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst. "
12 " Si el amor se alimenta de música, seguid tocando"(Shakepeare) "
13 " The carcass closest to him was the remains of the pimply youth he'd seen in Car One. The body hung upside-down, swinging back and forth to the rhythm of the train, in unison with its three fellows; an obscene danse macabre. Its arms dangled loosely from the shoulder joints, into which gashes an inch or two deep had been made, so the bodies would hang more neatly. "
14 " Lo tocó como nunca antes se había atrevido a hacerlo, acariciando su cuerpo con la punta de los dedos muy, muy suavemente, recorriendo la piel levantada como una mujer ciega leyendo braille. "
15 " what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs? "
16 " ...es mejor estar preparados para lo peor y es de sabios aprender a caminar antes de perder el aliento. "
17 " He had seen her wake in the morning like a slut, and pick murdered men from between her teeth, and suicides from the tangles of her hair. He had seen her late at night, her dirty back streets shamelessly courting depravity. He had watched her in the hot afternoon, sluggish and ugly, indifferent to the atrocities that were being committed every hour in her throttled passages. It was no Palace of Delights. "
18 " Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we’re opened, we’re red. The Book of Blood The dead have highways. "
19 " He was to be used to record their testaments. He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood. She thought of the grimoires that had been made of dead human skin: she'd seen them, touched them. She thought of the tattoos she'd seen: freak show exhibits some of them, others just shirtless laborers in the street with a message to their mothers pricked across their backs. It was not unknown, to write a book of blood. "
20 " Somos nuestros propios cementerios; nos instalamos entre las tumbas de las personas que éramos. "
