Nick Cutter Quotes & Sayings

...forever could be so, so brief. — Nick Cutter

You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you. Even if it gets ripped away in pieces. You just hold on. — Nick Cutter

When you got angry and frustrated and scared enough, it was so, so easy to get carried away. — Nick Cutter

The past had a perfection that the future could never hold. — Nick Cutter

Fear is just weakness exiting the body. — Nick Cutter

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

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. — Nick Cutter

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

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. — Nick Cutter

How could you hide from a murderer who lives under your skin? — Nick Cutter

You've never heard of the tapeworm diet? — Nick Cutter

They'd made a pact to be friends forever, but forever could be so, so brief. — Nick Cutter

If you call the tune, you also have to pay the piper when he begs his due. — Nick Cutter

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. — Nick Cutter

-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. — Nick Cutter

Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man?

Edgerton asks me with a pinprick of mad light dancing in each iris.

It's love. Love is the absolute killer. Care. The milk of human kindness. People try so hard to save the people they love that they end up catching the contagion themselves. They give comfort, deliver aid, and in doing so they acquire the infection. Then those people are cared for by others and they get infected. On and on it goes. He shrugs. But that's people. People care too much. They love at all costs. And so they pay the ultimate price. — Nick Cutter

The water wasn't the same down here.

Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, water becomes a barrier from all you remember, all you think you know.

You're trapped within it, a plaything of it.

Focus erodes. Your thoughts mutate. The pressure.

The pressure.

The soul can't cope with that. It shouldn't be expected to.

Humans weren't built for this. There's a reason nothing lives down here.

Or nothing should. — Nick Cutter