Lilith Quotes

“You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”
― George MacDonald

“When the Devil was a woman,
When Lilith wound
Her ebony hair in heavy braids,
And framed
Her pale features all 'round
With Botticelli's tangled thoughts,
When she, smiling softly,
Ringed all her slim fingers
In golden bands with brilliant stones,
When she leafed through Villiers
And loved Huysmans,
When she fathomed Maeterlinck's silence
And bathed her Soul
In Gabriel d'Annunzio's colors,
She even laughed
And as she laughed,
The little princess of serpents sprang
Out of her mouth.
Then the most beautiful of she-devils
Sought after the serpent,
She seized the Queen of Serpents
With her ringed finger,
So that she wound and hissed
Hissed, hissed
And spit venom.
In a heavy copper vase;
Damp earth,
Black damp earth
She scattered upon it.
Lightly her great hands caressed
This heavy copper vase
All around,
Her pale lips lightly sang
Her ancient curse.
Like a children's rhyme her curses chimed,
Soft and languid
Languid as the kisses,
That the damp earth drank
From her mouth,
But life arose in the vase,
And tempted by her languid kisses,
And tempted by those sweet tones,
From the black earth slowly there crept,
Orchids -
When the most beloved
Adorns her pale features before the mirror
All 'round with Botticelli's adders,
There creep sideways from the copper vase,
Orchids-
Devil's blossoms which the ancient earth,
Wed by Lilith's curse
To serpent's venom, has borne to the light
Orchids-
The Devil's blossoms-

"The Diary Of An Orange Tree”
― Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales

“I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world."

"I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.”
― Simon R. Green, Hex and the City

“She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight version of reality, Lilith has long been hailed as the queen of mental darkness.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“Because I think that's what love is- everything but children's love, anyway - loving the wounds we give each other, and that we can't help giving each other; you can't stay alive if you don't hurt people.”
― J. R. Salamanca, Lilith

“Vale held me tight to his chest, cradled in his arms, forehead to mind. There were tears in his eyes and blood on his lips.

'I want to stay,' I choked out.

'I know,' he whispered, as his mouth lowered to mind, and I faded away there in his arms, surrounded by withering roses.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Lilith is the tainted desire that is suppressed within him, within her, which wants to be expressed so badly.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Lilith is the one and only master to
all suppressed taboo desires.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Now, say it ...could you do it? Could you break the 'rules'?”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“You just got what was coming for you!" Anger stripped the niceties from her speech. Lilith spun around to face him again—her fists clenched—as if she could strike him, and wipe the sneer from his dead lips. He infuriated her. Nauseated her. Drove her mad with his mockery. Death had made him bitter, and any charm had sloughed away, along with his flesh.”
― Georgina Anne Taylor, Bewitchments and Betrayals

“May I write to you?' he asked.

My mouth closed. I blinked at him.

'May I write?' he sounded vaguely irritated, and I wasn't sure why.

'Yes,' I said at last. 'Of course.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Travel safely,' he said.

I gave him a small smile. 'I'll see you in a month, Vale.'

And he returned that smile- a thing so lovely I barely even noticed the teeth. 'I'll see you in a month, mouse.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“They'd brought weapons and explosives and fire. And they'd brought the most dangerous things of all: desperation and rage.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“No logic doesn't matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear- and my people were terrified.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“You must be happy to go home.'

Vale's gaze turned to me.

'I thought I would be,' he said. 'But perhaps they, like your friend, want something I can't give them. Maybe they want some part of me I have already given to someone else.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Run, a voice inside me whispered.

Stay another begged.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“And looking away didn't save me from Vale's stare, because I could feel his eyes the way one can sense a wolf stalking them in the forest.

Except I wanted to be caught.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“You want more than I can give you,' I whispered.

'I can't imagine that ever being true,' he murmured. 'Because I want only you, Lilith. Whatever of you I can have. I'll take one night. One hour. One minute. Whatever you want to give me. I'll have it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Whatever you wish to give me,' he repeated, slowly, like he wanted to make sure I understood. 'I'll have it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“It's so much easier to be the one who leaves first.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I always wondered what you were thinking,' he murmured. 'When you look at me like that.'

'Like what?'

'Like I'm a formula to be solved, and you're very intrigued about the answer.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“You do not have to do any of this alone,' ...”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“It must be hard,' he murmured. 'To bear the weight of so much affection in a life so short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Vale's eyes said, Stay, and for the first time in my life, I wanted to . I wanted to stay so badly I would die for it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I knew that- that I would be making a mistake in leaving you,' he said softly. 'I knew it, even if I couldn't name precisely why. So I came for you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“You've spent your whole damned life dying, Lilith. Now you've gotten that out of the way, and you get to live.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“George MacDonald is central to a Scottish tradition tormented by theology and with its roots in two worlds. He has been described as a link between John Galt and the kailyard, and his social novels, of which he wrote a good many, are certainly that. To my mind his deeper life is not in these solid, moralistic books, but in the stories usually described as fantasies. The most formidable of these is Lilith, one of the most ambitious books in Scottish literature. It aims to project a total metaphysical vision of the universe, in which evil gives way at last to good through repentance; even the Devil will finally repent.”
― J.B. Pick, The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction