Lillith Quotes

We are a match made in Hell. He may be Satan, but I'm Lillith. ~ Stylo Fantome

She crooned on until her cigarette was gone. The ash in the wind blew around us like hesitant snow. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, some on college campuses by administrators, some by priests, some in the context of druidic rituals, some in the context of Lillith rituals. The ideology has not always been satanic, but the ritual sadistic sexual behaviors are similar. ~ Robert B. Rockwell

My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

The earth spins further from help. Beyond us the heart monitors go on, the fluorescent lights buzz, the commentators shout, the casino leaves fall into the desert, sirens blare. But all we hear is the rain. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I slowly lost any dream for myself. No one warned me of this, that the stars in New York can infect the light inside, that they can trap you in their shadow. Dylan was of course a star. He had achieved the thing we all came to New York wanting. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I do not know…who turned me, your Grace."
His downcast gaze said it all: How terribly sad.
For she had known all her life as a Vampire it was most…disgraceful to never know the one who turned you; that was where a Vampire could find a sense of great peace amidst the life that was the constant need for blood. She had only passed by these remarks, this cloud on her person for being 'Princess of the Vampires,' Dracula's special child… ~ S.C. Parris

The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of playing. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return ~ S.C. Parris

I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us.

'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

eulogy for men

for ruxandra

men have doubles.
women don't.
men invent doubles for women so that they can both have a woman.
women pretend that they too have a double to please their double-man.
women may have many double-men who believe that they have a double-woman.
one woman can be the author of dozens of imaginary women for their many double-men.
one woman can make many women from stories.
eve had to make up lillith, sheherezade had to make up 1001 women
but there was only one eve and one sheherezade, the rest were men's dreams.
women invented speech to multiply themselves while also multiplying men.
women are the mothers of stories and the mothers of men.
poor men whose only gift is to listen and whose only strength is being two. ~ Andrei Codrescu

Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

We both knew no bounds to our escapism. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come to the desert are those who know this, deep inside of them, we are from up there. From far, far away. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift. An anomaly. A collision. In the end, I understand, it is only for this we live. All I ever wanted was to love. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I looked at Laura . . . and wondered at how many lives before this life we might have known together. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen. ~ Alan Kinross

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

He could guide anyone to the point of no return. He'd corral them with poetry, music, invoking the alcoholic gods that all died young. But we were so young, we didn't know we had anything we would miss. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine. His head fell back. He closed his eyes, then opened them. 'Come on, you know . . . you're just high as fuck.' Then in a dramatic whisper: 'Everything goes silent like a midnight of the mind. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

You have no idea. Lillith was defiant and obstinate. Adam was, well, he was a man. He thought with his dick. He asked God for a companion. It was his only request. God told him his wife would show herself to him. He misunderstood. He came upon Lillith bathing in the lake. ~ T.L. Brown

This day has already happened; this day will not end. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi