Quote by Douglas Nicholas

“He took a ragged, impossible breath. “That would be a beautiful lie to believe,” he said, and, incredibly, the ghost of a smile, bitter…

— Cassandra Clare

“Oh, he is really trying my salvation right now, because I feel a cussing demon getting ready to rise up and attach itself to…

— Tiffany L. Warren

“What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.”

— Alice Hoffman

“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.”

— Émile Zola

“I can’t kill his demons.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“What was that?” I croaked. Akhol sidestepped into my view and towered over us. “It was a Demon.” “But you said—” “I know what…

— Laura Kreitzer

“Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name,…

— Alice Hoffman

“It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.”

— Franz Kafka

“Satan fell by the force of gravity.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked…

— Osamu Dazai

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson