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