The Seal of Solomon Quotes

“Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“I prefer not to call them demons. It demeans their nature.

"But isn't that what they are?"

"We should pity them more than fear them Alfred. They were angels once."

"Yea, but didn't you say they rebelled against God? They got what they deserved."

"Perhaps." He sighed. "Yet do we not all hope and pray that we ourselves escape that we truly deserve? None have fallen as far or as irrevocably as the outcasts of heaven. Did you not find them beautiful." "...They have gazed upon the very face of God, the face they will see no more for all eternity-and so I pity them. Even as I envy them for having seen it.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“In the beginning there was a war. Before there were men or green fields or the untamed sea. Before there was anything at all, before Time existed, there was a terrible war. A war that these beings you saw today lost. The Archangel Michael, with the Sword mortal men would name Excalibur, cast them down for their transgression against the throne of heaven.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“They [demons] came before any of the rules had been written.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“You know how it is Al- we got no choice when it comes to parents and some of them are woefully underqualified.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“Do you know why they [demons] hate us so much, Alfred? Because of hope.

They have none, and so they hate us for it.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“Paimon would never believe the lie I was about to tell. That was the really weird thing about evil. Lying to God was better than lying to the devil: God will forgive you.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“Understand their hatred is beyond human comprehension. They abhor the Creator and so also the creation. Whatever brings joy, whatever brings peace, whatever redeems the dark deed or relieves the terrors of the night and their enemies.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“There is always tension, Alfred, between the life we want and the life we find.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“Sometimes good people have to do bad things. (Ashley)

But isn't that how you separate bad people from good? Bad people do bad things, good people do good things? (Alfred)”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon

“I should tell you that I hate doing this, Al -- you know, how I always liked you and respected you and all that, but that isn't true. To be frank, you've always annoyed the heck out of me.”
― Rick Yancey, The Seal of Solomon