"Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?"
— Libba Bray (Rebel Angels)

"Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)"
— Glen Duncan (I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story)

"Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?

Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.

Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?

Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)"
— Christopher Marlowe (Dr Faustus: the A-text)

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! Hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, receive thy new possessor- one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven... Here at least we shall be free, th' almighty hath not built here for his envy, will not drive us hence: here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed."
— Mike Carey (Lucifer, Book 11: Evensong)

"They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."
— Mike Carey

"Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow? thou wilt bring me soon to that new world of light and bliss, among the gods who live at ease, where I shall reign at thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems they daughter and thy darling, without end."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"...Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep..."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)