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• She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing. I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.

  Rick Riordan

  God, Sea, Names

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• It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flower, Moving, Apology

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Bones”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Simpsons/ The Old Man and the Lisa". Animation, Comedy, 1997.

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• Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

  Roger Zelazny

  Crazy, Stupid, Writing

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• You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Flower, Moving

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• He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

  Henri Michaux

  Angel, Poetry, Annoying People

  Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.176, Univ of California Press

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• In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

  Arina Tanemura

  Dark, Names, Born

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• Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

  William Goldman

  Writing, Ideas, Dancing

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• Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

  Joni Mitchell

  Angel

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• If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

  Tennessee Williams

  I Hate You, Angel, Ifs

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

  Simon R. Green

  World, Rogues, Lovers

  Simon R. Green (2009). “Just Another Judgement Day”, p.112, Penguin

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• But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

  Pat Conroy

  Attention, Dignity

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Kings, Queens

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• Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Dog, Obedient

  Remy De Gourmont (1992). “The Angels of Perversity”

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• In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

  Joss Whedon

  Darkness, Vampire, Generations

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• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Zoos, Men

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• Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

  Salman Rushdie

  Spiritual, Believe, People

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• Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Exorcist

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• I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

  Cassandra Clare

  Greatest Fear, Saws, Life Is

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.767, Simon and Schuster

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• Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trying, Wizards, Would Be

  "Eric". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that much, didn't you?" His eyes bored into her like drills. "You saw what Valentine was trying to do. He used demon blood-used it on me before I was even born. I'm part monster. Part everthing I've tried so hard to burn out, to destroy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Eye, Blood

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• Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

  Cheyenne McCray

  New York, Library, Olivia

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “Demons Not Included: A Night Tracker Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fighting, Army

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• He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.125, Penguin

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• Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  "Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)".

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