“Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.”
“But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.”
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”
“Maybe this kind of devotion is sinful," I continued. "Perhaps it was even the origin of sin. But you and I are already damned.”
“He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind”