The Life Of Death Quotes

“He kissed her as he worked, and swallowed the pestilence with her spittle; his hands came off her body gritty with her contagious cells. He knew none of this, of course. He was perfectly innocent of what corruption he embraced, and took into himself with every uninspired thrust.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“Every love story was - at the last - a story of death; this was what the poets insisted. Why should it be any less true the other way about?”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six