The man was smiling as he lowered his lips and kissed the traitor. Judas could taste the man's foul, frozen breath and not for the first time since they had met, wondered if this were the Devil himself.
-- Judas (Internal Presence)

From that day on, whenever he felt the need to kill his catch, he slipped the knife blade behind an ear and they slipped away, sudden and silent. A little shaking and the release of some fluids but he could live with that. It was to be expected.
-- The Fisherman (Internal Presence)

When Andy left the pawnshop he had three crisp ten-dollar bills and a rumpled five in his pocket. Of course this was at least six ten-spots lower than even his weakest expectation. He thought back, his hindsight incredibly sharp and thought of what he should have said to Mr. Penn. You cheap fuck! Stick it in your black ass!
-- Andy (Internal Presence)

What's wrong with that boy? Looks like such a normal young man.
-- Kevin (Internal Presence)

There was something rotten within her. Something childish and angry and slow and crawling, killing all the beauty with every breath it took.
-- Kevin (Internal Presence)

A strange cold feeling penetrated her and she thought of the doll. That beautiful painted porcelain face, frozen forever in a smile.
-- The Brain Angel (Internal Presence)

"She's not much to look at folks but she gives great mystery."
-- Penny

"I've always wanted to eat you my little boy." Her breath smelled old and rotten. "My nasty little boy who plays with himself beneath his sheets."
-- Marianne (From Kevin's dream. Internal Precense)

The chill she felt was more than bone deep. The icy cold touch of the Magician was forever.
-- Penny (Internal Presence)

Kevin's breath whistled in his ears and he felt as though he might have shot his entire soul through the head of his prick.
-- Kevin (Internal Presence)

"All things are over now. You are reborn. You are now called Malachi and you are a king. A slayer of men and ruiner of women. And you are forever a servant to me, Alanqua Tres, the god who made you king."
-- The Magician

"The world's a clusterfuck son. You can't make it all fit."
-- Darren Linke II

"I can read people fairly well. Men who want to help you almost always want to fuck you."
-- Becky

"At long last, it is I who has an apostle."
-- The Magician

To the lust of the medallion, the mother might be the biggest whore of all.
-- Kevin (Internal Presence)

"She's her mother's image. Her mother's flesh. Her mother's lust."
-- The Shunite (Inside Kevins Mind)

"It's funny, you know? The end of the world seems to begin in the morgue."
-- Salstonstall Medical Examiner

"How would you like to taste the end of the world? It's sitting on the end of my cock."
-- Daddy

He was sinking within the angel. Being absorbed down into that freezing nothingness that existed beyond beauty.
-- Malachi (Internal Presence)

She would later tell a reporter from Channel 5 News that the man was so white that he looked like an angel. Or a lunatic. Or a cross somewhere between.
-- Kerry Matton (Internal Presence)

"We've tangled once before boy. But I promise, if you resist me again, I will keep you alive for a thousand years of rotting hell."
-- The Magician

Down at his feet the pile of limbs still moved. Tiny hands and fingers curled. Dead muscles flexed. Eyes rolled and looked at him, mouths opened and closed with little, dry clicks.
-- Mayor of Saltonstall (Internal Presence)

She looked at Kevin with her empty sockets and smiled with blackened teeth and runny gums. Blood and bile ran over her puffed and purplish lips. She walked around the edge of the desk and came toward him.
-- Kevin (Internal Presence)

If the eyes were truly the windows to the soul, Chapman thought, then the bullet had gone deeper than anyone could know.
-- Chapman Carter (Internal Presence)

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