"In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching…"

"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny f…"

"Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old t…"

"Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dem…"

"Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? An…"

"He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated s…"

"I believe it's the end of the world. What? Harrogate was looking at the pavement. He said it again. Look at me, Suttr…"

"The night is cold and colder, a fog moves with menace in the streets. Malefic stirrings underfoot, a foul breath risi…"

"The priest looked at him. Do I know you? he said. Suttree placed one hand on the pew in front of him. An old woman wa…"

"Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of citi…"