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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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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
"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."
"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
"Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?"
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"I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying."
"Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls."
"She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying."
"His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook."
"I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile."
"His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before."
"The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke."
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