“With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.”

“Man acquired a soul and he must fight with all the powers at his disposal to protect that soul against the monster in his dark past.”

“His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.”

“Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.”

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions. ”

“Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.”