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8687575
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If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
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demons
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Tennessee Williams |
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9d2c2cf
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But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al's smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.
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fiction
rachel-morgan
demons
supernatural
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Kim Harrison |
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73e44f5
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The want for that kiss had shocked him more than the interruption, and he fell back into the chair, cool and nonchalant as Quen came in with his questions and demands. He wasn't sure if he believed he'd really helped, but one thing was very clear. He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for. He should walk away. Right now. But as she was ushered out the door under David's arm, all he wanted to do was follow her. What the hell was he doing, falling in love with a demon?
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romance
love
star-crossed
kim-harrison
the-hollows
trent-kalamack
rachel-morgan
star-crossed-lovers
demons
elves
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Kim Harrison |
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aa4d12d
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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
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murder
theory
humanity
quote
living
life
american-psycho
psycho
conclusion
psychopath
murderers
gore
serial-killer
epiphany
serial-killers
the-world
demons
murderer
society
human-beings
crime
humans
cruel
human-nature
horror
evil
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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24fb71a
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"Now you're going to get it," I said, guessing Al was coming when the ones in the back scattered. "You should have been nice." With a weird cry, the closest surface demon fell back, but it was too late. A flash of red light exploded overhead, smashing the buildings away as if I were at the center of an atomic explosion. The surface demons scattered like brown leaves, the remnants of their clothes and auras fluttering. It was Al, and he burst into existence in a grand mood, an old-fashioned lantern in his hand and a walking cane at his side. "Rachel Mariana Morgan!" he shouted enthusiastically, raising the lantern high, and I painfully rose from my crouch, breaking my bubble with a small thought. "I've come to save you, love!"
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ever-after
demons
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Kim Harrison |
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2b38ece
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Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. god is a masked Death.
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family-relationships
hatred
unhappiness
injustice
marriage
women
death
disparity
domestic-life
false-belief
lovelessness
scorn
unfreedom
disharmony
families
preconceptions
discord
married-life
worldliness
idolatry
decay
demons
matrimony
force
social-norms
society
hypocrisy
disgust
contempt
vice
expectations
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Charlotte Brontë |
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9b65ac5
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"You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?" I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, "It's the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky." Al's mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. "Very true," she said as she eased back into the cushions. With a soft click of his teeth, Al's mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I'd found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all."
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clever
al
newt
demons
insanity
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Kim Harrison |
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6823f11
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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshipped. The Jews attacked Belial, the god of the Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki anda Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Romans. The Anglican British banned belief in the Australian aboriginal spirits known as the Mimi. Satan is depicted with cloven hooves because Pan had them, and he carries a pitchfork based on the trident carried by Neptune. As each deity was deposed, it was relegated to Hell. For gods so long accustomed to receiving tribute and loving attention, of course this status shift put them into a foul mood.
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demons
gods
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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ac09932
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The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.
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dance
confidence
babies
groove
one-hundred-demons
lynda-barry
dancing
grandma
self-love
growing-up
demons
cool
stupid
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Lynda Barry |
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6fba61c
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"That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly."
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newt
demons
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Kim Harrison |
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9cb3096
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It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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man
courage
tame
demons
kind
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Joseph Campbell |
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bc69f91
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God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
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god
truth
hard-truths
christopher-marlowe
marlowe
lucifer
demons
christian
eternity
creator
devil
faust
hell
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
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25e57d5
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"Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside
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suicide
murder
demons
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Robert Bringhurst |
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a449d4c
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Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.
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olivia
demons
rose
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Kelley Armstrong |
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4feb2b4
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Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but they're nothing but luxuries for people who've never had demons (or at least have never admitted to them). But equally, she would reject nihilism, or the idea that there is no real meaning in life or death - ideas present in so much of postmodernity. Those ideas, too, are luxuries, but they are for those who have never been freed from demons.
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loss
christianity
jesus
faith
mary-magdalene
platitudes
demons
grieving
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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41d98ba
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I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
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grubbs-grady
dinosaurs
demons
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Darren Shan |
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73a562b
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"Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.'
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suicide
death
god
russian-lit
fyodor-dostoyevsky
russian-literature
dostoyevsky
russian
demons
russia
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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3eb4dcd
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"I'll meet you tomorrow morning at ten in your office, and explain everything. In the meantime, go home and get some sleep." "I have a meeting with McConnell and Baroja tomorrow at ten A.M. to review some procedures," he said. Now, that was the J.B. I knew. Never mind the demon attack; procedures needed reviewing." --
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humor
demons
paranormal
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Christina Henry |
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952fb99
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"Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.' 'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth."
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doubt
truth
st-thomas
demons
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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e6077ff
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"I did," Henric said, with a triumphant look. "Oh," Meena said, opening the book to the page 74, the one from her dream. "You mean this prince?" She pointed at the illustration of Lucifer. Henric's grin faltered slightly. "Precisely." "He's not a prince," Meena said. "As you know perfectly well, he's a fallen angel. And what was Lucien's mother?" "A p-princess," Henric stammered. But there was terror in his eyes. "No," Lucien said, shaking his head. "She was an angel." Meena swung around to look at him. Tears glittered in her eyes as she gazed up into his, which had gone back to their normal deep brown. "Yes, Lucien," she said, holding the book open in front of him. "That's why Henric was trying to keep this from you. Because he realized it was the one thing that might help you remember what your mother always taught you. You, of all people, really do have a choice. You can choose to be good . . . because you are part good. No matter how hard you try to be the devil's son, you've still got an angel for a mother."
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good
lucifer
lucien-antonescu
meena
demons
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Meg Cabot |
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cc4dccf
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" ," Beranabus murmurs, face crinkling. "Most humans know nothing of true warfare. They wage their silly territorial battles, kill each other ruthlessly and freely, and consider themselves experts on war and suffering. But the real war has always been ahead of them, unseen, unimagined. Enemies who can't be killed by normal weapons, who have their base in an alternate universe, who are interested only in slaughtering every living being on the face of the planet."
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war
death
planet
demons
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Darren Shan |
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2fb2a10
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"How did you get hired?" "I checked the box on the application that said "descendant" by mistake. I'm dyslexic and I thought it said something else." "Okay," I said, thinking that was the worst employment application mistake ever. "And they all believe him to be the true ruler of Fallen?" "All the Mei-Bettys do. They're, like, obsessed with it. It's a little like restaurant-of-the-body-snatchers, you know?" "Then why do you work there?" I asked. "Clearly, you figured out something was wrong with them." "Duh, but it pays well and they provide room and board. I sorta needed the job and a place to stay. It's got free wifi," she said, as if that explained everything." --
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dark-urban-fantasy
demons
prophecy
paranormal
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H.D. Smith |
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2447f1e
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We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.
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metaphor
relationships
the-sea-the-sea
toxic-relationships
iris-murdoch
demons
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Iris Murdoch |
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b5e3676
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Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.
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internal-struggle
possessed
tormented
the-message-to-the-planet
iris-murdoch
demons
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Iris Murdoch |