Quotes from book
I, Lucifer

Name: I, Lucifer
Author: Glen Duncan

I, Lucifer is a 2003 novel by Glen Duncan, told from the point of view of the eponymous fallen angel, who has taken on a human body formerly belonging to a struggling writer.

“The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.”

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“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

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“Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”

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“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”

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“Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.”

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“Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.”

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“Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.”

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“Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.”

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“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”

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“There's no such thing as. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”

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“I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.'

Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.”

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