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"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."
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"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."
"I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion."
"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"
"I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts."
"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."
"Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses-one black, one white, and the third red."
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