Nick Cutter Quotes

#1. Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used.

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#2. They'd made a pact to be friends forever, but forever could be so, so brief.

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#3. -the wind called a mordant note through the sickly trees while other less explicable sounds scraped up the beach-head toward him-waiting for the unknown wickedness to arrive.

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#4. ...forever could be so, so brief.

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#5. If you call the tune, you also have to pay the piper when he begs his due.

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#6. The past had a perfection that the future could never hold.

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#7. When you got angry and frustrated and scared enough, it was so, so easy to get carried away.

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#8. Fear is just weakness exiting the body.

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#9. The Fire Team's tanks were filled with a jellied gasoline/holy water mix: scourging and sacramental.

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#10. He couldn't get a grip on his sudden fear: it slipped through the safety bars of his mind and threaded - wormed - into the shadowy pockets where nightmares grew.

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#11. His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, he realized. Tiny fingers tickling you from the inside.

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#12. You've never heard of the tapeworm diet?

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#13. The detritus of animal and plant life that had died miles above. It fell steadily through each zone of the ocean, down and down, shredding into flakes, leached of pigment until it became bone white. A snow of death.

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#14. How could you hide from a murderer who lives under your skin?

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#15. You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you. Even if it gets ripped away in pieces. You just hold on.

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