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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon

  • #3
    James Frey
    “If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #4
    Anne Rice
    “People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

  • #5
    Diamanda Galás
    “I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

    And he says,
    How much time do you want?”
    Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God

  • #6
    Flannery O'Connor
    “There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #7
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy

  • #8
    Debra Anastasia
    “That wasn’t blood. It was love. It pours out of you when you lose faith.”
    Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim

  • #9
    Debra Anastasia
    “When you just breathe on me, I want you. Being in your arms will melt me. Being naked with you might kill me.”
    Debra Anastasia, Crushed Seraphim

  • #10
    Kelly Braffet
    “Logic is what the devil likes most.”
    Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

  • #11
    J.A. Konrath
    “We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.”
    J.A. Konrath, Origin

  • #12
    Anatole France
    “We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
    Anatole France

  • #13
    Teresa de Ávila
    “I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”
    Santa Teresa de Jesús, The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

  • #14
    Criss Jami
    “The devil's happy when the critics run you off.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #15
    “God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.”
    Thomas Deloney

  • #16
    Nancy A. Collins
    “... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”
    Nancy A. Collins

  • #17
    Nwaocha Ogechukwu
    “No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one of us has an aspect of the devil within us. By studying the character and nature of Satan, we learn about ourselves; and the more we know about ourselves, the better we can fight our own personal demons—metaphorical or otherwise—in order to create a better tomorrow”
    Nwaocha Ogechukwu

  • #18
    Ed Galisewski
    “On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that
    the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of
    course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of
    the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and
    how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done
    the devilʼs work for him.”
    Ed Galisewski

  • #19
    “If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”
    Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan

  • #20
    Evangeline Ravencraft
    “Do you think the Devil is real then?” she asked. If God wasn’t up in heaven answering a desperate mother’s prayers then maybe Satan didn’t exist either.

    “He is real,” Gabriel answered quietly, his voice almost a whisper. “I look him in the eye every day.”
    Evangeline Ravencraft, Fallen



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