Cabal
Author: Clive Barker
Release: January 1, 1988
Publisher: Poseidon Press
Genre: Contemporary, Anthology, Horror, Thriller
ISBN-10: 0671626884
ISBN-13: 978-0671626884
Synopsis: Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories.
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Quotes and Lines
The world was full of brutal fathers and tyrannical mothers, and come to that, cruel and uncaring children. It was the way of things. She couldn’t police the species.
Every moment she wasted saying No to what she knew, was a moment lost to comprehension. That her worldview couldn’t contain such a mystery without shattering was its liability, and a problem for another day.
Yesterday’s assumptions were gone to the wind. Anything might be true.
They were what the species he’d once belonged to could not bear to be. The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity’s sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.
…yesterday’s corruption today’s commerce.
Fatigue compromised sound judgment, and if ever he needed that faculty it was now.
“Nothing the Prince of Lies offers to humankind is of the least value, Valentin said, ”or it wouldn’t be offered. Swann didn’t know that when he first made his Covenant. But he soon learned. Miracles are useless. Magic is a distraction from the real concerns. It’s rhetoric. Melodrama.”
Disbelief was for cowards, and doubt a fashion that crippled the spine.