Demon Quotes - Page 40

• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484

  Dan Brown

  Heart, Mean, Angel

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• I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

  Anais Nin

  Stars, Hair, Imagination

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• He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.

  John Connolly

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

  Garth Stein

  Zebras, Fear, Self

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• Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

  Rob Thurman

  Boys, Looks, Pants

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Trick of the Light: A Trickster Novel”, p.186, Penguin

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• But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Maxwell, Communicate

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.76, Penguin

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• Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)

  Joseph Delaney

  Matter, Desperate, Having Hope

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• You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

  Aravind Adiga

  Sleep, Men, Differences

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.186, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Islands, Glasses

  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.339, Simon and Schuster

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• The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

  Devon Monk

  Diapers, Temper, Mum

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.123, Penguin

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• Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Passion, Heaven, Secret

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Night, Men

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Boys, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hero, Divorce, Fighting

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.296, Penguin

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• I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked. No," Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Forever, Castles, Half

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie

  Jeaniene Frost

  Jesus, Amen, Hallelujah

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• Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Giving, Dating

  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.952, Simon and Schuster

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• Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of color. “Did you just say demon?” Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider once again glanced around the plane helplessly. “No, no. I think I said seaman.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Color, Faces

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.52, HQN Books

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• Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.

  Brom

  Suffering, Matter

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Hands, Scientific Method

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• But nobody can run from their own demons.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Running

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

  Milarepa

  Compassion, Race, Wind

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• Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Sex, War, Angel

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• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Order, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.152, Advaita Ashrama

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