The Demons' Muse Quotes

“Friendships were temporary things, dependent only on what someone got out of it, and I just didn't have anything else to give. I'd been used up and tossed out as a child, and hadn't quite refilled yet. Keeping people at arm's length was easier.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“sometimes it felt like dating was nothing more than a series of one night stands with the same guy.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Because the easiest way to control people is to separate them. To make each group convinced that it's the 'best' one in some way. And religion? It's all based on achieving this impossible level of perfection. If you break the rules, you will be forgiven, so you're not lost from the herd, but everyone will know they're just a little better than you. Until they are the one making a mistake - the sin - and then they cling to the fact that they can be forgiven for it.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“You are my woman, Satan's love, and Samyaza's desire. You are Lucifer's impossible bargain, and the question Ronwe cannot stop thinking about. That is all that matters.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“you should never be defined by the people who love you. They should love you because you define yourself.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Welcome to Hotel fucking California," I said, mostly to myself. "You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Exactly! I can't change your mind, not even with facts, because you have strong opinions.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“words do have power, and fear is hard to fight against.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Hello, elections. We humans do this all the time. In my country, every four years we trot out all the best fear tactics, scare the population back into submission, and freak the fuck out about stuff we wouldn't notice if it wasn't on the news every day.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Sam was hovering right beside me, watching my face intently. "You ok, sweetie?" I looked at him with a smile. "I did it! I just asked, and she started pushing. I had no idea it would be so easy. I mean, I figured there was some mental magic you had to pull to get people to die for you, but it's so easy! And she gave me all her life, just boom." He stared at me in shock for a moment, his eyes flicking between mine as I rambled on. Gently, he pulled me away from the neon reflection of the daughter and the grey silhouette of the corpse, easing me out of the room without saying a thing. That in itself was enough to make me worried, replaying what had happened over and over in my mind as I tried to figure out where I'd made some kind of horrendous mistake. "Sia?" he finally asked when we reached the hall. "You know it's ok to be sad about this, right?" "Why would I feel bad? I didn't know her." "Because her daughter was there?" I waved that away. "Her daughter was telling her to let go. The old woman was suffering, and I found a way to make it better." "You know you killed her, right?" Those words made me finally understand the problem. "Sam, that woman was going to die. She could've rolled around in pain, groaning in misery until her heart clenched or her lungs gave out. As her body failed her, she would've panicked. It's kinda what we do. Instead, I made her smile. In her last moments on Earth, I made her feel comforted and protected, like this was just moving to the next step. She wasn't afraid." He nodded, taking that in. "Ok?" "You don't get it because you can't die. Death? It's the monster in the dark. It's the one thing we all fear the most, and in her last seconds, she wasn't afraid. She was thrilled. She knew she'd had a good life, and seeing me proved it to her. That's all we want. People pray to die in their sleep so they don't have to face that one terrifying second. We think about it our whole lives, refusing to talk about it because no one knows the answer, but now I do. I finally understand, and I made her death into something beautiful. Something her daughter will look back on and think is proof that she's in a better place.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“Everywhere's evil," Azrael said. "Anyplace two people can disagree, one will be convinced he's good, and the other isn't. That's the problem with free thought. It's also why it's so important.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3

“So?" I shrugged that off. "When I was a kid, one of my foster families had a dog that got hit by a car. They had the vet put her down because her back was broken. I've always wondered why we call it a kindness when we do it for our pets but cruel when someone thinks about the same thing for a person." I lifted my hands slightly. "I mean, we say we don't want a dog to suffer, but we want Grandma to? Maybe it's because I never had a real family, but it doesn't make much sense.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3