Shiva

“Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not the little sex-hard, but the death-hard; the murder-hard. It sniffed the air for him, even through the thickness of his trousers and underwear. It smelt the victim that ran ahead of him. The Mask didn't care that his prey was female; he got the murder-hard for anyone. In his time he'd had a heat for old men, pissing their pants as they went down in front of him; for girls, sometimes; sometimes women; even children. Ol' Button Face looked with the same cross-threaded eyes on the whole of humanity.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it's someone else's.”
― Clive Barker, Dread [Graphic Novel]

“Love is not about romance or passion. Love is about a state of grace. You experience it when you accept the absolute truth of the other person, both the cruel and the divine, and they accept these things in you, and you find that you still long to share a life with them. To know the worst in another and still want them with all your soul. To know that they feel the same way. It is a sense of security and power. And once you have arrived at this, the richness of romance and passion that appears is not blinding. Instead, it is invulnerable and forever.”
― Cody McFadyen, Shadow Man

“Колко по-лесно им е да умират на тези, които вярват в нещо! Тези, които са убедени, че смъртта не е краят на всичко. Тези, в чиито очи светът се разделя отчетливо на бяло и черно, които знаят точно какво трябва да се прави и защо, които носят в ръцете си факлата на идеята, вярата, и в нейната светлина всичко изглежда просто и разбираемо. Тези, които не се съмняват в нищо, не се разкайват за нищо. Такива умират лесно. Умират с усмивка.”
― Дмитрий Глуховски