Quotes from William Peter Blatty

MY BROTHER HURTS. I SHARE HIS PAIN. I MEET GOD IN HIM.

Y tal vez el propio Satán, a pesar de sí mismo, sirva de alguna manera para cumplir la voluntad de Dios.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.'

Os próprios exorcistas, às vezes, se tornavam vítimas de possessão, como acontecera em 1634, no convento ursulino de freiras em Loudun, na França. Dos quatro exorcistas jesuítas que tinham sido mandados para lidar com uma epidemia de possessão, três deles — os padres Lucas, Lactance e Tranquille —, além de serem possuídos, morreram logo depois, vítimas de um aparente ataque cardíaco causado por hiperatividade psicomotora ininterrupta:

Was the universe eternal?

That you ever existed is a thought that gives me shelter; that men could make you up is a thought that gives me hope; and the thought that you might exist even now would give me safety and a gladness that I could not contain.

Quis occidit eum?" Who killed him? "Regan.

You been playin' with the Ouija board, Rags, honey?

passed through the entry hall, Karras heard footsteps coming up rapidly behind him. "Father Karras!" Karras turned and saw Karl with his sweater. "Very sorry," said the houseman as he handed it over. "I was thinking to finish much before. But I forget." He handed

Chris explained. Beginning on the day after Regan's birthday—and following Howard's failure to call—she had noticed a sudden and dramatic change in her daughter's behavior and disposition. Insomnia. Quarrelsome. Fits of temper. Kicked things. Threw things. Screamed. Wouldn't eat. In addition, her energy seemed abnormal. She was constantly moving, touching, turning

have the syndrome, Mrs. MacNeil. For example, the untidiness; the pugnacity; behavior that's socially embarrassing; the automatism; and of course, the seizures that made the bed shake. Usually, that's followed by either wetting the bed or vomiting, or both,

Well, the test was negative," he said, then described the procedure, explaining that in clonus the alternate flexing and releasing of the foot would have triggered a run of clonic contractions. But as he sat at his desk, Klein still seemed worried. "Has she ever had a fall?" he asked.

Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking quickly in and out of her mouth while she sibilantly hissed and moved her head very slightly back and forth like a cobra.

funeral," he said. "I just saw him. He is here in this ward in a

Hesitation. Then "I've got one. What's the name?" She wrote it down and then the telephone number. "Call and have him look her over and then tell him to call me," the internist advised. "And forget the psychiatrist for now." "Are you sure?

Well, it's sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of

Karl met the eyes that were shifting hardness, that were haggard wells of pain and blame; glimpsed briefly the dissolute bending of the lips and the ravaged face of a youth and a beauty buried alive in a thousand motel rooms, in a thousand awakenings from restless sleep with a stifled cry at remembered grace.

Why you do dis to me, Dimmy?

Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. "God

It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

Al buscar el olvido, trataban de recordar.

where does this new personality come in?" The psychiatrist turned back to her. "Well, again, it's just a guess," he said, "but assuming that it is conversion hysteria stemming from guilt, then the second personality is simply the agent who handles the punishing. If Regan herself were to do it, that would mean she would recognize her guilt. But she wants to escape that recognition. Therefore, a second personality.

He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.