Clive Quotes

“I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica

“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“Don’t die. (Clive in The Unwanteds)”
― Lisa McMann, The Unwanteds

“However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

“Part of me thinks we're fools to trust either of the, Hapexamendios or His Reconciler. If He was such a loving God, why did He do so much harm? And don't tell me He moves in mysterious ways because that's so much horse shit and we both know it. ”
― Clive Barker

“You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.”
― Clive Barker

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”
― CS Lewis

“Maurice no lo lamentó, pues tampoco podía dormir, aunque por una razón diferente. Tenía miedo de que Clive oyese los latidos de su corazón, y sospechase el porqué.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“—Durham, estoy metido en un infierno.
—Bueno, ya saldrás. Es solo el infierno de la repugnancia. Nunca has hecho nada de lo que puedas avergonzarte, así que no sabes lo que es realmente el infierno.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Grecia había sido luminosa, pero muerta.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice