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“Lucien sighed as he looked me over. 'Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?'
'Do you ever stop being such a prick?' I snapped back.
Dead- really, truly, I should have been dead for that.
But Lucien grinned at me. 'Much better.'
Alis, it seemed, had not been wrong.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Lucien snorted at the sight of me. 'Those clothes are enough to convince me I never want to enter the human realm.'
'I'm not sure the human realm would know what to do with you,' I said.
Lucien's smile was edged, his shoulders tight as he gave a sharp look behind me to where Tam was waiting in front of a gilded carriage. When he turned back, that metal eye narrowed. 'I thought you were smarter than this.'
'Good-bye to you, too,' I said. Friend indeed.”
“Lucien snorted but didn't say anything else as we passed beneath a flowering lilac, its purple cones drooping low enough to graze my cheek like cool, velvety fingers. The sweet, crisp scent lingered in my nose even as we rode on.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Lucien was having none of it. 'I knew. I knew you were lying the moment you unleashed that light in Hybern. My friend at the Dawn Court has the same power- her light is identical. And it does not do whatever horseshit you lied about it doing.'
I shoved my pack off my bedroll. 'Then why not tell him? You were his faithful dog in every other sense.'
His eye seemed to simmer. As if being in his own lands set that molten ore inside him rising to the surface, even with the damper on his power. 'Glad to see the mask is off, at least.'
Indeed, I let him see it all- didn't alter or shape my face into anything but coldness.
Lucien snorted. 'I didn't tell him for two reasons. One, it felt like kicking a male already down. I couldn't take that hope away from him.' I rolled my eyes. 'Two,' he snapped, 'I knew if I was correct and called you on it, you'd find a way to make sure I never saw her.'
My nails dug into my palms hard enough to hurt, but I remained seated on the bedroll as I bared my teeth at him. 'And that's why you're here. Not because it's right and he's always been wrong, but just so you can get what you think you're owed.'
'She is my mate and in my enemy's hands-'
'I've made no secret from the start that Elain is safe and cared for.'
'And I'm supposed to believe you?'
'Yes,' I hissed. 'You are. Because if I believed for one moment that my sisters were in danger, no High Lord or king would have kept me from going to save them.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Lucien was the first to turn where I lurked in the doorway, falling silent mid-sentence. But then Tamlin's head snapped up, and he was racing across the room, so fast that I hardly had time to draw breath before he was crushing me against him.
I murmured his name as my throat burned, and then-
Then he was holding me at arm's length, scanning me from head to toe. 'Are you all right? Are you hurt?'
'I'm fine,' I said, noticing the exact moment when he realised the Night Court clothes I was wearing, the strip of bare skin exposed at my midriff. 'No one touched me.'
But he kept scouring my face, my neck. And then he rotated me, examining my back, as if he could discern through the clothes. I tore out of his grip. 'I said no one touched me.'
His breathing was hard, his eyes wide. 'You're all right,' he said. And then said it again. And again.
My heart cracked, and I reached to cup his cheek. 'Tamlin,' I murmured. Lucien and the other sentries, wisely, made their exit. My friend caught my gaze as he left, giving me a relieved smile.
'He can harm you in other ways,' Tamlin croaked, closing his eyes against my touch.
'I know- but I'm all right, I truly am,' I said as gently as I could. And then noticed the study walls- the claw marks raked down them. All over them. And the table they'd been using... that was new. 'You trashed the study.'
'I trashed half the house,' he said, leaning forward to press his brow to mind. 'He took you away, he stole you-'
'And left me alone.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Lucien whipped his head to the right, listening, his eye whirring softly. The hair on my neck stood, and I had my bow drawn in a heartbeat, pointing in the direction Lucien stared.
'Put your bow down,' he whispered, his voice low and rough. 'Put your damned bow down, human, and look straight ahead.'
I did as he said, the hair on my arms rising as something rustled in the brush.
'Don't react,' Lucien said, forcing his gaze ahead, too, the metal eye going still and silent. 'No matter what you feel or see, don't react. Don't look. Just stare ahead.'
I started trembling, gripping the reins in my sweaty hands. I might have wondered if this was some kind of horrible joke, but Lucien's face had gone so very, very pale. Our horses' ears flattened against their heads, but they continued walking, as if they'd also understood Lucien's command.
And then I felt it.”
“Lucien?”
“Yes, Alice?”
Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. “I think it’s real.”
Source: Lord of Fire
“Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.”
Source: The Rebel
“Lucifer caught him by the wrist, pulled him close, cradled him in the warm snowfall of wings.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age.”
“Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...”
Source: Paved With Good Intentions
“LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish.
CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing”
Source: Cain: A Mystery
“Lucifer is God in the public school system”
“Lucifer is the hero of the Bible, and the most misunderstood being in its narrative. He is not Satan, but the Light Bearer!”
“Lucifer is the name of the Woman’s offspring. Lucifer means light-bearer. A Jesuit priest translated that Hebrew word that means light-bearer, as the name, Lucifer, the one who carries the light.”
Source: Phases of Creation
“Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.”
“Lucifer looked over her shoulder. “What?”
Dahlia cleared her throat. “You stupid bitch, I hate you and love you. Do not wear anything Patience gave you, it’s all ugly. I am going to write on every single blank page. Ha-ha! Love, the Faithful slut.”
Lucifer scowled. “That person was mean to you.”
Dahlia grinned. “No way, Faith was funny. I was the bitch, she was the slut, and Patience was the crack whore.”
Source: Morningstar
“Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.”
“Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.”
“Lucifer’s halo filled the grim little room with light, and he seemed suddenly more beautiful than ever. Something fragile and almost mortal, unreal, outlined against the sweating stone.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Lucifer smiled, that glorious expression that turned his crown of shadows into the gentle darkness of a moonlit night.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“LUCIFER: They say what they must sing and say on pain
Of being that which I am and thou art--
Of spirits and of men.
CAIN: And what is that?
LUCIFER: Souls who dare use their immortality,
Souls who dare look the omnipotent tyrant in
His everlasting face and tell him that
His evil is not good!”
Source: Cain: A Mystery
“Lucifer was engraving Nate’s name on a cage right now.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“Lucifer was quite right when he said he had the most powerful force against good at his disposal. Powerful factions of the world were siding with him. They were unaware, but the devil cared nothing for whether they knew or not. One day they would know, however. For an eternity. That thought pleased him greatly.”
Source: A Rage Like Thunder
“Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.”
Source: Reignite
“Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction.”
Source: No Doubt about it
“Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do what you want, even if you're Lord of the Underworld.”
Source: The Redemption of Ajax
“Lucifer? You're here?" She asked.
"Just throw them away, Ash." He told her.
But Ashley shook her head, "No, I can't. He'll be my saviour." She whispered, drifting off.
"Or your greatest disappointment.”
Source: On Human Hearts and Hog Parts
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.”
“Luciferian awakening is a holistic change of consciousness, whereby one ceases to see the world as something separate from the concept of the' self'. The human animal and fallen nature are one. The theistic illusion of human separation from nature and the false consciousness of existing outside or above the natural world is a delusion and a lie. LCFNS”
Source: The Satanic Kerygma
“Lucifer’s hairy ball sack! You’ve become a morlock.”
“Lucille: Apparently, mood altering medication leads to street drugs. That's what this very handsome young doctor said on The Today Show.
Michael: That was Tom Cruise, the actor.
Lucille: They said he was some kind of scientist.”
“Lucille: I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I went off my post-partum medication.
Michael: You were still taking that? You had Buster 32 years ago.
Lucille: And that’s how long I’ve been depressed about him.”
“Lucille: I'll be at the hospital bar
Michael: You know there isn't a hospital bar, Mother
Lucille: Well, this is why people hate hospitals”
“Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.”
“Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.”
“Lucitta knew Russian politics, and discussed how Trotsky was compelled by Stalin’s régime to deny many of his beliefs. It seemed that Mella, believing in one’s own personal independence, developed an interest in Trotsky’s philosophy.
Basically, Trotsky believed that an international revolution should be initiated by the people, and that Communism wouldn’t succeed if it were only in one country surrounded by capitalistic states. Stalin countered that Marxism should be concentrated and strengthened under strong leadership in one country, which was the case in Russia. It didn’t help Trotsky’s cause within the Communist Party, when he contended that Stalinism in reality was “Tyranny disguised as Communism.”
“Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.”
Source: Essays
“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”
“Lucius could tell that the mercenary was not proud to admit to being driven by anger. It kept him alive. Why then, would it bother him?”
Source: The Companions
“Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.”
Source: Human Detritus
“Lucius had told him word was out that he was dead. Han decided that being dead made travel much easier.”
“Lucivar winced. "She guzzled half the flask — and it wasn't one of his home brews, it was the concoction you created." Jaenelle’s eyes widened. “You let her drink a ‘gravedigger’?” “No no no,” Wilhelmina said, shaking her head. “You shouldn’t ever drink a gravedigger until he’s had a bath.” She smiled placidly when Jaenelle and Lucivar just stared at her. “Mother Night,” Lucivar muttered. “Do you know that song?” Wilhelmina asked Jaenelle.”
Source: Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3
“Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.”
“Luck always favors the comely.”
Source: Matinee idylls: reflections on the movies
“Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.”
“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
“Luck and fortune are always on the side of the persistent.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail