Cabal Quotes
"Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than 'I’ll never leave you.'"
"What time didn’t steal from under your nose, circumstance did."
"I thought you were getting better," Decker said, "I really did. We both did."
"You’re not Nightbreed, you’re meat. Meat for the beast."
"You remember something?" the doctor said, reading the change on Boone’s face.
"I did it," Boone said simply, "I did it all."
"There’s a man out there for you, Sheryl; he’s walking around with your name on."
"It’s all right, Aaron, it’s all right. I’ll put them away."
"Perhaps the creature was fearful of her and, preparing some final act of defense."
"Her first impression was not one of sight or sound but of smell: a bittersweet scent that was not unpleasant."
"It was almost beyond responding to her touch, its eyes momentarily fluttering open as she stroked its flank, then closing again."
"Something like a sob reached her ears. She froze."
"The mourner seemed to shrink back into the shadows as she was addressed."
"She looked at the pavement that lay between where she stood and the mausoleum."
"The woman in mourning was standing at this second door, which was open, as far from the wounding light as she could get."
"Don’t waste your time here, there’s nothing for you here."
"Midian’s a home for the Nightbreed. Only the Nightbreed."
"‘Come away,’ Lylesburg told her, and the shadows that concealed him moved off down the stairs."
"She was momentarily disoriented, and closed her eyes to allow herself a reprieve from both tomb and light."
"This was the true Midian. Not the empty town on the hill, not even the Necropolis above her, but this network of tunnels and chambers."
"She was like a blind woman, sobbing as she stumbled, no longer even certain if Decker was behind her or in front."
"Visions came to meet her down the highway, brought on by the aftereffects of shock and the loss of blood."
"‘The child has no life to save,’ he said to Lori, ‘but what she has is yours, if you want it.’"
"‘What’s below,’ he said from behind the veil, ‘remains below.’"
"There was only the brightness, its ferocity threatening to wash the whole world away."
"‘We know,’ came the reply from the darkness, ‘we saw. Still, you must come away.’"
"You think you disgust me, Boone? You think you horrify me? You don’t."
"Nothing’s right, except what you feel and know."
"I want you cold, if that’s the way you are. I want you dead, if that’s the way you are."
"I don’t want us dust in the same wind. I want us flesh."
"If you’re going to kill me, do it, will you? Get it over with."
"I’m not going to let go. I’m going to wait here till they come to string me up."
"I know damn well. I’m killing the dead, and how can that be wrong?"
"You’re not getting me. I won’t let you get me!"
"They’re not animals in there. They’re people! And you’re killing them just because this lunatic tells you to."
"Her heart beat too hard to be pressed any further."
"If he would come after her forever and forever—and he would—what was the use of living in fear of him?"
"Got something for you," he said, and took his hands from his pocket to display the silver hooks on his thumbs.
"If she waited to shed a single tear the Mask would claim her, and Narcisse’s sacrifice would have been for nothing."
"The blow divided Narcisse’s head from scalp to neck. It was a wound even a dead man could not survive."
"His nerves ran with bliss; his body throbbed as it swelled. In life he’d never felt so alive."
"In murdering the prophet he made the prophecy true."
"She sobbed his name, turning her eyes to meet the Mask."
"She’s there!" the child said. "Which way?" "Straight ahead. Look!"
"He couldn’t save the Baptizer. But he could save Lori."
"The sight slowed her pace by an all but fatal step."