7 Quotes by Nick Cutter

They wanted answers. Which was all people like them ever wanted. Any answers at all, so they didn’t have to think on their own.

You know what my sister said to me once? She said that maybe the best thing about having a child, especially a young one, was that you could love that child shamelessly. She said that you could put everything into that kid, love crazily, give everything in your heart and mind and soul over to that other person. You can’t do that for a husband or a wife, not really. The only other entity you could love that way would be God, if you’re a believer.

Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at myself, tear my skin off, but I can never quite die. Like I said, funny. But to hurt is to love, right?

Then a delegation of blow-dried American scientists arrived.

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

You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?

Dirty stick. That’s what Sister Muriel, one of the nuns at the San Francisco Catholic Orphanage, used to call the male penis. She always made that distinction - the ‘male’ penis, as if it was necessary.