Demon Quotes - Page 22

• Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fighting, Numbers, Shapes

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Cells, Smell, Dying

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• Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Promise, Enemy, Horror

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.32, Penguin Group

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• I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Digging, Ashes, Faces

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• ‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.

  Jana Oliver

  Orangutans, Arms, Demented

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• As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Mother, Osiris

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• Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Knowing, People

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Pathfinder”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)

  Alexandra Ivy

  Dust, Vampire, Ceilings

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.128, Zebra Books

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• You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

  Maureen Johnson

  Sound, Hunters, Said

  Maureen Johnson (2006). “Devilish”

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• Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost consciousness. And I will lose consciousness, Alec.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Enchantment, Ships

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.

  P. C. Cast

  Queens, Drama, Serial Killer

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• Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

  P. C. Cast

  Wish, Lines, Kim

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• I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Fighting, Inner Demons, Sides

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.101, Macmillan

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• He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah." "I know. Sorry." "So I get a hug?" "No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sorry, Hug, Savannah

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• Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Pox

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• I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

  P. C. Cast

  Miracle, Mutants, Doe

  P.C. Cast (2009). “Elphame's Choice”, p.290, Harlequin

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• I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Selfish, Evil

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, People, Design

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Son, Army, Men

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• Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

  David Bowie

  Emotional, Planes, Battleground

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• But it was for your own good.” – Nick “So’s the spanking I’m about to give you.” – Cherise “I’m too big to spank.” – Nick “Fine, you’re grounded until your grandkids are old.” – Cherise “Kind of hard to do. How am I supposed to have grandkids if I’m grounded?” – Nick “Precisely my point, you demon spawn. You’re never going to get off restriction.” – Cherise

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Kind, Grandkids

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• Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

  Jack McDevitt

  Wine, Imagination, Regularity

  "Omega". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2003.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

  Johnny Depp

  Sometimes, Feels, Multitudes

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• I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

  Ab-Soul

  Mean, Satan, Wells

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• The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

  Fergie

  Devil, Dolls, Might

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