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Quotes from Weaveworld — Clive Barker

born 1952 England

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“Believe nothing,” Apolline advised. “This woman wouldn’t know the truth if it fucked her.”

Weaveworld (1987)

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

Weaveworld (1987)

Life and wisdom. What more could anybody ask?

Weaveworld (1987)

What can be imagined—
—need never be lost.

Weaveworld (1987)

She told him she made a rule of never marrying bankers. The next day he sent flowers, and a note saying that he’d relinquished his profession.

Weaveworld (1987)

Perhaps there was a natural process at work here; a means by which the mind dealt with experiences that contradicted a lifetime’s prejudices about the nature of reality. People simple forgot.

Weaveworld (1987)

What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?

Weaveworld (1987)

Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.

Weaveworld (1987)

It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.

Weaveworld (1987)

“Don’t be sentimental,” he chided. “Memories aren’t enough.”
It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.

Weaveworld (1987)

Suzanna didn’t wait for confirmation. There was no use disbelieving the worst now.

Weaveworld (1987)

There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.

Weaveworld (1987)

So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.

Weaveworld (1987)

Among their members were some of the wealthiest individuals in the world; between them, fortunes sufficient to trade in nations. None of the seven had a name that would have meant anything to the hoi polloi—they were, like the truly mighty, anonymously great.

Weaveworld (1987)

Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anyway, willing to embrace the void if it came with sufficient razzmatazz.

Weaveworld (1987)

As to the remnants of his army—those Seerkind who’d embraced the Prophet’s visions—they’d been the authors of their own punishment, waking from their evangelical nightmare to find it had destroyed all they held dear.

Weaveworld (1987)

Of course, there was Hobart. The Inspector was probably insane, but that was all to the good. And he had one particular aspiration which Shadwell knew he might one day need to turn to his own ends. That was, to lead—as Hobart put it—a righteous crusade.

Weaveworld (1987)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clive Barker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.