var bookquotes=new Array() bookquotes[0]='I closed my eyes, remembering where I had last tasted this liquor, remembering back across the years, remembering how steady the hand had been that held out the cup to me, and how desperate the circumstances. With a stab, her face rose before me-- beautiful, tantalizing, terrible to behold.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[1]='\'We don\'t know what has happened at Light of the World\', said Rajah Brooke\'s beautiful minister-without-portfolio. \'But we need someone to find out. And get the missionaries out-- If there are any left to be got out. At least the effort must be made.\'
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[2]='I straddled the deck of the cutter and drew in lungfuls of the rich morning air as if it was a tonic. And it was, for the name on the documents identified the bearer as Captain Ulysses Drake Vanders. I was headed for my first command.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[3]='These images became entangled in my dreams...and it was not long before I saw the man-ape myself, his long hairy arm pointing to a graveyard on a hill overlooking a vast river. There were the young Englishmen of Bengkula, in disordered rows, some of the tombstones leaning, some fallen, and among those teetering monuments I found my own.
--Ghost Eater' bookquotes[4]='I straddled the deck of the cutter and drew in lungfuls of the rich morning air as if it was a tonic. And it was, for the name on the documents identified the bearer as Captain Ulysses Drake Vanders. I was headed for my first command.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[5]='\'Ten Thousand Excuses, you mean\', grumbled the muttonchops.
\'It\'s another damned Malay trick to get out of work. The head overseer of my Sumatra plantation-- my best man! up and leaves me last week\'.
\'Just where do you think you are going?\', I ask him.
\'I am taking my family into the mountains\', he says.
\'You\'ve got a contract\', I say.
He says to me, \'What good are a contract when these plains split in two and the fireballs fall from heaven?\'
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[6]='Fahey held the lantern high in one hand and my pistol in the other. On the floor of the cabin, seemingly oblivious to our presence, squatted a Chinese, naked to the waist, his shaved head glistening as he bent over a tiny candle and some sticks spread helter-skelter on the floor. To add to his bizarre appearance, the fellow wore a Polynesian tattoo for a collar.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[7]='I had the distinct sense of being watched by some brooding power, as if my arrival had, in some strange way, been anticipated but not welcomed. Perhaps it was the distant trumpeting of elephants, or the sudden snarl of a jungle cat, that held some teasing echo of my name.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[8]='Their features were hidden beneath beehive helmets made of wattle, painted with symbols, and around their wrists and ankles they wore bracelets of coiled thorn. Stained black as pitch, with jagged white thunderbolts snaking down their chests and legs, they shrieked their hideous war cries to the awful drone of bullroarers. These fearsome Mamaq warriors seemed to have emerged from the primeval ooze of the earth itself to drive their enemies to despair. Shaking spears and bundles of arrows, they came at us in frenzied droves as if welcoming pain and death.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[9]='Here was the Prince Bandarak we had heard so much about. His complexion was nearly fair, a light cinnamon, and he carried himself with a regal, if studied, mien, as if he were trying out a parody of nobility. Teeth filed to sharp points confirmed the self-mockery in his smile. Adding to this barbaric touch, a blue vein fell across his forehead like a lightning bolt, and his nose, though finely molded, was broken in one place. His dark eyes flickered with uncertainties and portents like a general whose sleep, on the eve of a battle, has been wracked with bad dreams.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[10]='You are a long way from Paris, Dr. Diem.
-Ghost Eater' bookquotes[11]='Perhaps I heard some message in the haunting cries of nightbirds and all these seeming portents mingled with the heady orchid odors carried on the breeze, so thick and honeyed they might drown the senses. This vast island looming to portside had mysteriously asserted its subtle menace and the exercise of its will, as a great khan, behind an intricate screen, might savor the wretched terror of any rash pretender dragged in chains before him.
-Ghost Eater' var whichquote=Math.floor(Math.random()*(bookquotes.length)) document.write(bookquotes[whichquote])