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“And in the master’s chambers, they gathered for the feast. They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast.” —THE EAGLES, HOTEL CALIFORNIA
“Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns.” —STEVEN CRAIN, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” —SENECA THE YOUNGER
“I don’t know. He took you out of purgatory and planted you in this body twenty-one years ago. He told me I needed to condition you because you were to take my place. I resented you for it at first.” He glanced up at the hologram behind me, frowning. “I should have known it was something more when I felt the need to protect you. I told myself that it was because you were mine to torment, and I didn’t want to share your pain.”
“While that is still true, I have come to decide that you will also be mine to pleasure. I am sorry you have been lonely, Lilith, but I am not sorry for keeping you for myself.”
“Trust is a dangerous game.” —HENRY HILL, GOODFELLAS (1990)
"Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again and again.” —DEXTER MORGAN, DEXTER
“I must say, I was really hoping you would fail that little test, Lil. Though it does seem to be a shame that you’ll need to crawl down the aisle on your wedding day.”
“Oh yes. You and Ramel will be bound together today, and you will spend the rest of eternity happily… or, I guess, unhappily married if you continue to resist. How much longer are you going to fight this, Lilith? Look around you. You’re in fucking Hell. You just trusted a demon to help you escape.”
“Even if we did have more time, we both know that I would continue to hurt you. I would hurt you again and again, Lilith, because I am a monster, and I love to see you cry.” He kissed me gently, pulling my bottom lip into his mouth for a moment before releasing me to continue. “You know as well as I do that I’m not capable of being kind… but for reasons that I cannot fathom or understand, you make me want to fucking try.”
“I’m your own personal nightmare, Lilith, and I will never let you go,” he whispered, giving me a small, sad smile. “I may not be able to promise you kindness, but I can promise you forever. I can promise that I will be the only monster to ever hurt you because your pain belongs to me.”
“Marriage is too important to be left to the determination of the individuals concerned.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI
“The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.” —ELIE WIESEL
“People say there’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I say that line’s in your head.” —HANNIBAL LECTER, HANNIBAL
“I am a monster, and that’s what monsters do.” —KLAUS MIKAELSON, THE ORIGINALS
“You never felt like a sin.” —FATHER PAUL, MIDNIGHT MASS
“I’m not losing you again. You’re staying right here.” —JACK DAWSON, TITANIC (1997)
“Wait! What did you do to get me stuck in purgatory? Aren’t you going to tell me?” I asked, and Ramel paused by the door, looking back at me with regret painted across his face. “I loved you,” he rasped, and my heart stopped in my chest.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” –JAMES 4:7, ESV
“It is especially important for you, Ramel, to understand the dangers and temptations of sin,”
"There is no creation without destruction. Without pain, there is no art." –THE CHEMIST, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: DOUBLE FEATURE
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” — MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
“Just as you cannot have light without darkness, you cannot have life without death. Without decay, nothing would grow.”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” —1 CORINTHIANS 13:4
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” —SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
“I know that I am in love with you, Ramel,” she replied, and at that moment, it was over for me. I knew I would do anything, even burn down Heaven itself, if it meant I could be with her.
“Cats choose us; we don’t own them.” —KRISTIN CAST
With a stroke of her hand, I felt the painful burden of Yahweh’s wings burn away, and I was reborn in shadow. My own hands turned black and became stained with death as she shrouded me in night, crowning me her Reaper of Nightmares. I felt the darkness thrum through me and had never felt more complete or alive. This was who I was and who I had always been meant to be. I was Lilith’s nightmare, and I belonged to her and her alone.
“The devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” –REVELATION 12:9, ESV
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.” —ELIZABETH BOWEN
“We will protect you, Lilith. Nothing matters in this world if you are not a part of it,”
“A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three, he stays.” —ENGLISH PROVERB
“So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.’” –GENESIS 6:7, ESV
“The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.” —SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” —MOTHER TERESA
“The Devil is real. And he’s not a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful. Because he’s a fallen angel, and he used to be God’s favorite.” —MADISON MONTGOMERY, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN
“Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” —TOBA BETA
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” —UNKNOWN
“If you touch one hair on that mortal girl’s head, I will fucking bring Heaven down to Earth,” Shem snarled,
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
If Ram was murder, Shem was mayhem.
“My demon is you.” —HAILEY LEITHAUSER, SHADOWS
“We are in love,” Ramel said, taking my dirty dish off my lap and clanking it on the tray. He leaned into me and kissed the corner of my mouth softly. “I still love you. I always will. I just didn’t know because that asshole wiped my memories clean. Though even then… even when I hated you, there was something there. I was obsessed with you, Lilith. I didn’t need to stalk you as thoroughly as I did. I could have let you die the first time you tried to kill yourself and told Yahweh you were a failure and not fit to rule Hell. I never understood why I did that. I told myself it was because I
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Shem chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. “I’ll fuck anything that walks. I would fuck Ramel if he would let me.” Ramel barked out a laugh. “I didn’t realize you wanted to fuck me, baby; all you had to do was ask,” he said with a wink, and Shem cracked up.
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” —PAULO COELHO
I realized with a start that the weight of his body was starting to feel comforting, and his scent was now familiar. Someone who had always represented fear and pain was now beginning to make me feel safe and wanted.
“If you’re looking to trust me, Lilith, then you can trust this: I will never stop trying to force you to love me. I will push and bend you to my will until I’m the only thing you see and the only one you want. One day you will willingly be mine again. Until then, I will take whatever parts of you I can steal because I promised you forever, and forever starts today… whether you’re ready for it or not.”
“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.” —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” —LINUS VAN PELT “IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN!”
“When gods war with gods, it is the mortal who suffers most.” —PIERCE BROWN, “RED RISING”
