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When we feel fear, we deny our True Nature, forgetting that, as an indivisible part of the Oneness, we have the same creative power as the Oneness. As we have unconsciously created our fears, similarly, we can consciously decree their end and start to create only what we choose to create.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
You can become what you want. You have an army of angels behind you.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
When I near Charlie’s house, I notice she’s standing in the doorway with a spatula in her hand. Despite being on edge, I can’t stop myself from grinning. I feel like such a chick around her sometimes, like I’m seconds away from buying a tiara and starting my period.
— Victoria Scott, The Liberator
The Dark Angel had seen much over the course of the past millennia, the passing of hundreds of thousands of mortal lives. He felt neither remorse nor mercy for the enemies he had felled in the course of wars and battles. He did what he had to do and believed that the people of Earth did not deserve all the good things they had received. For him, most people were harmful parasites who, in the process of their brief mortal lives, tried to get ahead by climbing over each other and destroying their own homes. He looked down on them and their love of material things. He believed that the star of humankind was waning, and that its brief stay on Earth would serve, at most, to swell the ranks of slaves in the underworld, where eventually darkness would eat them away.
— A.O. Esther, Elveszett lelkek
He’s a fallen angel,” Dale said. “The goth punk rocker thing… I don’t know. He picked the costume.”“The costume?” Daphne said.“Body,” Uriah explained. “And I didn’t fall. I left. Tendered my resignation, as it were.
— J.L. Aarne, The Man in the Long Black Coat
Don’t settle, Genevieve. Don’t let strangers grope you on dance floors. Don’t allow college boys to fondle you in doorways. Don’t waver in uncertainty about your own desires....Know what you want. Endeavor to seize it, and keep it when you do.
— Juliette Cross, Forged in Fire
Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.
— Molly Friedenfeld
One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
— Reinette Poisson
Yes, angels exist. Many people say that ‘a loving God would never allow 9/11 to happen, or a really bad car crash, or starvation.’ Yet they neglect the fact that there were survivors of 9/11, the car crash wasn’t fatal, and those who starved at least had a life to live; Interestingly enough, most people who say the former neglect to mention the horror of abortion. Those babies only lived a few months.
— Preston Wagner
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
— Oprah Winfrey
If we want to create Heaven on earth, we must be the creators of Heaven on earth. This means we must choose to infuse honor and love into each experience, with every soul and creature we encounter. In its simplest form, this is what Angels do.
— Molly Friedenfeld
When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!
— Gabriel Brunsdon
Vincent made his way closer to the group and shuffled his feet while he watched them embrace. Breccan's head remained buried in the huddle while his large hand reached out, grabbed Vincent's good wing, and pulled the archangel into the fold.
— Madison Thorne Grey, Recompense
We are deluded when we think that we do not have a direct line to heaven, that heaven doesn’t stand ready to help us. Oh! If only you knew the angels that walk beside you, that support and protect you on the journey you’ve chosen to walk.
— Toni Sorenson
till, silently￼without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep.￼They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head,￼all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled,￼above towns which glitter blue and red.
— Dixie Dawn Miller Goode, Moonrise
The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate
—  their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate
Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels.
— Janell Rhiannon, Invisible Wings
When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.
— Maria Dorfner
The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our conception in their nature and their multiplicity and their power. God was at least the name of something which we thought was good. Now even the name has gone and the spiritual world is scattered. There is nothing any more to prevent the magnetism of many spirits.
— Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels
We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again.How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.
— Cornell Woolrich, Fright
Hire an angel. They need the work.
— Donna Wolfe Gatti
You'll have more visions and thoughts to prepare you. Your heart's desire shows you the future. We put Angels in the sky to show you that we are in your life, and you are on path.
— Paul Stefaniak
Your Spirit Guides and Angels will never let you down as you build a rapport with them. In the end, they may be the only ones who don't let you down.
— Linda Deir
Angels surround us all the time.
— Lailah Gfty Akita
Where are we heading?”“The closest wooded area to here is Kenwood Academy’s estate. Good place to hide, especially at night.”“If we’re going into the woods, I definitely need to change.”I glanced back at her as we returned to the curb where the cab had dropped us off. “Or you could just go home.”She crossed her arms and avoided my gaze, scowling. “You’re sick of me already? That must be a record.”I lifted my eyes to the heavens. Women. “This creature tore out a woman’s throat and busted her chest cavity open like a piñata. I don’t like the thought of it being anywhere near you.”“Did it ever occur to you that I feel the same way?”Surprise flooded over me. “No, it…actually didn’t.”“I know I’m not as strong or as smart as you are, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help. We’re partners, aren’t we?”“Yeah,” I said, and couldn’t stop the smile creeping across my lips. “I guess we are.” She tossed a quick look at me and frowned. “Quit it.”“What?”“I hate it when you do that.”“You hate it when I smile?”“No, when you make that, ‘aw, she does have a heart’ face. You look like a Disney prince.”I laughed. “My bad. I’ll work on that.
— Kyoko M., The Deadly Seven
Don’t let your problems push you. Let your dreams lead you! The lens you choose to view the world determines how you feel about yourself and everything around you. Optimism attracts goodness into our lives and gives us strength to overcome obstacles. You can’t live a positive life with a negative attitude. Heaven on earth is not a place we must find, it is a choice we must make. Let every day be a love you can feel. Let every day be a dream you can touch. Let every day be a reason to live. Life is too short to be anything but positive!
— Anonymous ., The Angel Affect: The World Wide Mission
The world is full of uncertainty and the road you are traveling may be a bit scary at times, but don’t ever lose faith. Let go of the scary things that are holding you back and start noticing the great realities unfolding around you. Most of all, believe in yourself and never give up on what’s important to you! Life is always going to present you with unexpected changes. But if you keep an open mind, look for the goodness in every situation and are able to adapt in any of life’s misfortunes, you will always prevail.
— Anonymous ., The Angel Affect: The World Wide Mission
When you are content to simply be yourself, without comparing and competing to impress others, everyone worthwhile will respect you. And even more importantly, you will respect yourself. No one has the right to judge you. People may have heard your stories, and they may think they know you, but they can’t feel what you are going through; they aren’t living YOUR life. So forget what they think and say about you. Focus on how you feel about yourself, and keep walking the path that feels best under your feet.
— John Geiger
You should never be afraid to give yourself a chance to be everything you are capable of being. If you think you’re not good enough, you’ll surprise yourself if you keep trying. No one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong. Everyone has their own dreams, their own struggles and a different path that makes sense for them. Remember, it’s always better to be at the bottom of the mountain you want to climb than the top of the one you don’t.
— Anonymous ., The Angel Affect: The World Wide Mission
The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains
— S.R.  Lewis, Falling Into Place: Touched by Divine Inspiration
Remember, we who fell like stars from Heaven still shine bright in our own court.
— Philip   Dodd, Angel War
We all experience highs and lows in life. If you are feeling down right now, each second that passes is another moment to turn it all around. Feelings, good and bad, always come and go. The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. When you stop expecting people and situations to be perfect, you can start appreciating them for who and what they are. Imperfections are important, and so are mistakes. We get to be good by learning from our mistakes and we get to be real by being imperfect.
— John Geiger
Ohhhhhhh,” she groaned, jerking up from the reclining seat as the tears exploded. She felt as devastated as if she were still in the body of the grizzled fighting man. Convulsing sobs of remorse tortured her energy body and she rocked it like a baby, holding her midsection, feeling as if her stomach would turn inside out. She struggled to speak, gulping in habit for air that didn’t exist, which would have been useless to her energy lungs anyway.She had to know. “Who? Who…was…he?” she managed in spurts. “The boy—”“You know the answer already, don’t you?” Coriskancsia replied gently.
— Lianne Downey, Cosmic Dancer: An Interdimensional Fantasy
Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but he still had a heart and though it might have ached with the choices of his past, I chose to believe that it beat for me.
— Christina L. Barr, Almost Alive
Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels.
— Kami Garcia
Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey
— Donovan M. Neal, The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars
God and the Angels can and want to assist you with all aspects of your life. Your happiness and life is their primary mission.
— Jan Porter, Angel Guides: love communication
Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
Today, you are as old as you have ever been and as young as you will ever be! It is never too late, or too early to start working toward your goals and your dreams. Every moment, every situation, and every turn of events presents you with an opportunity to build the self you are capable of being, and the life you are worthy of living. It’s just a matter of accepting, implementing ideas, taking action and actively expressing the purpose that is uniquely YOU.Every word you speak and every action you take should be intended to make tomorrow a little bit better. There is no such timer, clock or watch that measures quality time. You are given 24 hours a day and it is up to you as to how you will use it!
— John Geiger
Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread
— Dean Cavanagh
Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. When you look at a problem, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful source that transforms grief into greatness. Don’t be someone who goes through greater lengths to avoid change than you do to obtain what you desire. You must define and embrace the necessary changes that move you forward. Go beyond your discontent for what is, and instead focus on imagining and creating the best of what’s possible.
— John Geiger
Today you are encouraged to start tuning in to your inner voice. Nothing will bring you down quicker than berating yourself. The words you speak to yourself have a major impact on your mood and your perception. One of the major reasons we fail is due to self-doubt and negative self-talk. The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. Listen to your self-talk and replace negative thoughts with positive ones. And over time you will change the trajectory of your life.
— John Geiger
You are not what you have done, but what you have overcome. All the hardships, the mistakes, the rejections, the pain and all the times you questioned why have given birth to the wisdom and strength that will help you shine your light on the world, even in the darkest of hour. Failures and struggles keep you humble. Success and achievement keep you glowing, but only faith and determination keep you going. Stay focused and celebrate your efforts too, not just the outcomes.
— John Geiger
You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ellie: "What was your favourite food before root beer floats were invented?"Will: "I dont know. Food was terrible before people started putting lots of chemicals and artifiacal flavours into it to make it taste better. I guess Ive always like carrots a lot."Ellie: "Carrots?" "Your other favourite food is carrots? What is wrong with you?
— Countney Allison Moulton
You have everything you need within you to become the best possible version of yourself. Believe that you CAN. Believe that you’re capable of pushing harder and farther than you have before. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, smart enough and strong enough to achieve your goals. Don’t let false beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself. And certainly don’t get sidetracked by other people who are off track.
— John Geiger
Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.
— Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn
— J. Dylan Yates, The Belief in Angels
Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?
— Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
I can't do it. I can't get into a philosophical debate with an archangel, knowing how ridiculous it is and how unprepared I am.
— T.J. Klune, Into This River I Drown
I don’t share your luxury. I believe in karma. I make karma happen. I rain down karma on my enemies.”“We are the progeny of ancient myths, so we attempt to write our own.”“I see the killing fields of the innocents crying out for justice while we hold our ranks.”“You have ventured into deep waters, leaving your wading pool of shallow pragmatism.”“Divine intervention is not without its own pain.”“When all seems lost, don’t confuse this with the end, rather this is the beginning.”“Your redemption is at the gate of your conscience. You have been granted the power of a choice.”“What say you, image bearer? Have you come to save us?
— Todd D. Boddy, The Exit: Blue Moon Chronicles
His gaze ran over her body again, resting on the deepest of the fracture lines in her shields. 'Come here.'Purple feathers fanned around Riana's sides. Sudden tears moistened her eyes at the unexpectedness of what Sier was offering. She sank against him, and his arms folded around her back. Her weight supported, Riana let herself float on the night and tucked her face into his neck. Sier's power closed around her in a violet wave, running into her halo, slipping though her opened shields.
— Joanna Fay, Reunion
Everyone has their wings, it just so happens that mine are black.
— Destiny-Angel King
They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military.
— L.M. Fields
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Angels, angels, always near, protecting you, my special dear!
— Alexis York Lumbard, Angels
We are deluded when we think that we do not have a direct line to heaven, that heaven doesn’t stand ready to help us. Oh! If only you knew the angels that walk beside you, support and protect you on the journey that you’ve chosen to walk.
— Toni Sorenson
His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
As we strolled into the hospital, I couldn’t help thinking about Maroon 5’s “Harder to Breathe” because I was having a difficult time staying calm. I had been kidnapped and beaten senseless by an agent of Lucifer, and yet the white coats the doctors wore scared me just as badly. The men who had taken me from my mother wore those same damned lab coats. Every time I saw one, it awakened a dormant fear inside me—fear that I’d be dragged away from someone I loved again, fear that I’d be placed into the waiting hands of another horrible person. It would never truly go away.Michael’s shoulder bumped mine, which shook me out of my thoughts. I glanced at him. “What?”“You’re frowning.”“Am I supposed to be smiling right now?”He faced forward, looking at our reflection in the elevator doors. “No, but you look like you’re about to bolt at any second.”I watched the digital numbers change one by one as we rose up to the right floor, fiddling with the rosary in the pocket of my leather jacket. Somehow, the beads had a calming effect on me. “I’m fine.”“Hard ass.”A tiny smirk touched my lips. “Stop thinking about my butt. You’re an archangel.”He grinned, but didn’t reply.
— Kyoko M., The Black Parade
We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.
— Sucker Punch movie, Sucker Punch: The Art of the Film
We are very much in love; when I call her angel, she calls me demon.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
I'll bet every fucking one of your angels is going to be terrifying!
— John Irving, In One Person
But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.
— Jon Steele, The Watchers
So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable false, unmov'd,Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'dHis Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale;Nor number, nor example with him wroughtTo swerve from truth, or change his constant mindThough single. From amidst them forth he passd,Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteindSuperior, nor of violence fear'd aught;And with retorted scorn his back he turn'dOn those proud Towrs to swift destruction doom'd.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
I am not surprised of your goodbye, breaking heart and leaving behind; maybe these are what angels do for fun.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have no right to judge legends; lest we dare challenge demigods and angels.
— C. JoyBell C.
Look, Jordan, you’re not alone any more. It’s my job to protect you while I’m here and I can’t do that if you keep pushing me away.”“That’s the problem, Michael,” I shot back. “You have more responsibilities to your boss than you do to me. You taught me how to defend myself, how to heal myself, and that should be good enough. You can’t keep babysitting one little human when you have an entire cosmos to worry about.” He faced me again, those green eyes boring into mine as if he could see straight through me. “Are you saying you want me to leave?”My chest tightened. I hadn’t expected him to say that. I bit my bottom lip, glancing away. “That’s not what I mean.”“Then what do you mean?” “Since when have I ever known what the hell I mean?” He touched my right cheek, making me face him. “You do when it counts.”Staring up at him, shirtless, vulnerable, and wounded, I felt like I couldn’t breathe. He had a knack for picking my walls apart brick by brick. It bothered me. He took a step closer, casting a shadow over me. “Stop,” I mumbled, fixing my eyes on the floor. He brushed a lock of hair behind my ear, sliding his warm hand to lift my chin so I’d have to look at him. “Stop what?” he murmured. “Looking at me.”“Why?”“That’s how Terrell used to look at me before we kissed.”His lips parted to say something but I pushed past him, gathering up my duster from where it lay on the bed next to the dress. “Get dressed. We have more ghosts to help.
— Kyoko M., The Black Parade
Michael and Gabriel-"Creatures of an unremembered beginning, born of light and sent to protect this place and live among men of free will. To comfort them in death and guide their souls to a new form." Angels
— Jon Steele, The Watchers
I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.
— Jon Steele, The Watchers
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
— Gustave Courbet
You look like her
—  the angel I have seen in my dreams.
Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do.
— Lisa C. Temple
Angels walk among us, Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings upon their backs.
— Molly Friedenfeld
And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.
— J.L. Vallance, Deep Into the Soul
Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be.
— S.K.N. Hammerstone, The Rift
It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life’s purpose.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Yeah, sorry for not being all Betty Bad Ass; fighting isn't exactly a requirement for jazz singers.
— J.L. Vallance, Revelations of the Soul
TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life’s mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Conscious positive wording assists us in maintaining our joy and a positive outlook on life. It allows us to make the choice to be consciously joyful and consciously grateful for all life experiences.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Have peace in knowing, dear ones, that we are all composed of energy. Energy never dies. It is always changing and transforming.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
...there’s no such thing as a dirty fight.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
How's happiness class going, by the way?""Okay, so far.""Are you feeling happy?" he asks with the hint of a smirk.I shrug. "The professor says that happiness is wanting what you have."Christian makes a thoughtful noise in the back of his throat. "I see. Happiness is wanting what you have. Well, there you go. So what's the problem, then?""What do you mean?""Why is the class only okay?""Oh." I bit my lip, then confess. "Every time I meditate, I start glowing.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.
— Jack Kerouac
I’m curious about why there’s so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.
— Mackie Burt, Above
Angels do exist it is people who cannot see them.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
I hate fallen angels. They can talk about nothing but their fall and sins.
— Lara Biyuts
When an Angel whispers in your ear, it is your heart that hears thy message.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Angels and demons are shaped by humans. Even god is shaped by humanity. Who you are has been codified by the humans around you… family, friends, and even enemies.
— Ben Tousey, God's Madmen
Death didn't happen like I expected it to. There was no Grim Reaper, no chorus of angels, no army of demons. And my life didn't flash before my eyes. Death was the color of softness, a delicate green under a thin film of baby powder. There was nothing but soft random thoughts and picture, drifting through me like a child's breath blowing through a dandelion after making a wish. And as I died, I was held by my love. I wanted to soak up her love and smuggle it with me to wherever my soul was headed.-character Ron (Broken)
— J. Matthew Nespoli
Where did you think playing with angels was going to get you?
— Nicki Elson, Divine Temptation
If you are an angle, all you can give is boredom.
— Lara Biyuts
If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith!
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.
— S.K.N. Hammerstone, The Rift
How do you possibly manage to turn talk of an angel into something perverted?
— Nicki Elson, Divine Temptation
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.
— Mark Twain, Roughing It
Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.
— l.a weatherly
...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one.
— Helen Boswell, Mythology
But there was nothing in the darkness. Only rain, and fire and the past.
— Lou Morgan, Blood and Feathers
Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.
— Paul Harding, Tinkers
One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death
— Mackie Burt, Above
Angel exists
—  and I believe in angels but I'm not an angel
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
In the meantime, when he went on his way back, the seed had grown into a tree which reached up to the sky. Then thought the peasant, 'As thou hast the chance, thou must just see what the angels are doing up there above, and for once have them before thine eyes.' So he climbed up, and saw that the angels above were threshing oats, and he looked on.
— Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales
We don't need wings to be angelsWe don't need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart
— Brian Littrell
You may not see me, but I am near.Travel through time.Travel through space.Travel through eternity.Some have entertained me, but were not aware.The infants, ill, and dying see me most, as I bless them with the heavenly hosts.You are not alone, we are around you, just as we stand before his throne.I repeat, you are not alone.Messengers of love and truth walk among mortal men.You are not alone as we guide you home.
— David  Holdsworth, Angelos
K, boys, it’s shirts against skins. Lose ‘em,” Lucy said, pointing to the guys and ignoring Thad.“I beg your pardon?” Thad said, aghast.“Why do we have to be skins?” Josh complained.Lucy looked at Erin and they both shrugged and grabbed the hems of their shirts, preparing to haul them over their heads.“Whoa!” Sable said, covering his eyes immediately.“Wait,” Josh, Angelo, and Thad said at the same time.“Hell, yeah,” Blaze chimed in.The girls stopped right before they fully exposed their chest. “What? You guys act like none of you have ever seen a pair of boobs in a bra before. Josh saw mine a few hours ago and I know, for a fact, that three of you have seen hers outside the bra.” Lucy looked pointedly at Thad, Blaze, and Angelo.Erin’s head snapped in Josh’s direction. “JOSH!” she screeched, accidentally letting loose a snap of electricity.
— Christine James, Final Redemption
God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end.
— Sam Cheever, 'Tween Heaven and Hell
It struck her hard how it was often the ordinary acts that were angelic. Maybe there were angels in the sky and maybe there weren't. Maybe angels helped arrange for Tom to be the one to drive along right at that moment. She didn't know. But what she did know was that there were angels on the ground. She did know that Tom stopped the car, got out, and buried the kid's dead cat. He didn't have to, but he did. It was a small act, but it was huge. And that made Tom an angel to her, one no less divine than any angels that might be in the sky.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery,” he informed, his tone steady and cold. “Is that explicit enough?”“Oh, don’t be so dramatic,” I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass.
— Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said, smirking.
— Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
Perhaps as this hostile world oppresses us and tries to lead us away from God’s holy ways, He sends angels on missions of mercy to open our eyes to pathways of holiness. What better way can angels minister to those who are to “inherit salvation” than to facilitate this very thing? (An Angel's View, pp. 69-70).
— Michael   O'Neal
I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.
— Lauren Kate
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
— Alethea Kontis, Enchanted
It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.
— Jon Steele, The Watchers
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen," he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.
— Vicki Pettersson, The Taken
Darkness will always be...its own master...
— C.K. Mullinax, Ember Celestial Tempest
In the evening, I would tell my patients, sleep with the angels. In the morning, I would say to each as the French farmers still do, "Good morning to your and your companion" - meaning, of course, their angel.
— Eileen Elias Freeman, Angelic Healing: Working with Your Angel to Heal Your Life
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
— Albert Einstein
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I’ll go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name. 
— Clementine von Radics
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
— Jonathan Swift
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare
[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
— Edmund Burke
I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.
— Dean Koontz, Relentless
Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.
— Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle
I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called . . . bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and don't even know about the ground, and once you know the world is full of things like that, your life is never the same.
— Terry Pratchett, Wings
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.
— Welwyn Wilton Katz
In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.
— Marty Rubin
Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.
— Tierney Gearon
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor.In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.
— Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown.
— Walter de la Mare, The Return
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
— P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Comes Back
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
It's these little things, they can pull you underLive your life filled with joy and wonderI always knew this altogether thunderWas lost in our little lives
— R.E.M Sweetness Follows
Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.
— H.G. Wells
Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.
— Marilynne Robinson
The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.
— Russell Moore
The land of wonder is full of lights.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.
— Ben Monopoli, Homo Action Love Story! A tall tale
Paris isn’t a city, it’s a world.King Francois I
— Lepota L. Cosmo, Love in Paris - Poetic Guide to the Romance of the City
I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.
— Marty Rubin
In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.
— Christopher Paul Flateau
What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?
— Roshani Chokshi, Death and Night
I am constantly searching for places that rekindle my sense of wonder.
— Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin
I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.
— Jeffrey Fry
What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.
— Daniel Tammet, Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
It was back home that The Northern Lights cast these wondrous rainbows in the snow, and where Snugs used to play tag with the huge curtain of shining light that ran, even faster than the wind, across the vast snow-covered landscape.
— Suzy  Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear
The older I get, the less I know. It's wonderful--it makes the world so spacious.
— Swami Chetanananda
The timing of events is a splendor of wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What else can we do in the wilderness, than to wonder?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
If you don’t have a sense of wonder it’s like you’re dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that’s basically a conjurer’s trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.
— Bruce Sterling
Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.
— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do…]
— N'Zuri Za Austin
The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.
— Marty Rubin
I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one—this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.
— Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders
I wish I'd been born with your capacity for wonder. I wouldn't mind living a shorter life if my short life could be as vivid as yours.
— Sara Baume
I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.
— Sarah Ruhl, The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
When they love you, you'll know it. If they don't, you'll wonder all the time if they do.
— Charles Orlando
Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?
— Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle
All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave, but I have had a comfortable feeling that, however ordinary my enterprises may have been, they had at any rate the advantage of containing, for me, an element of sustained unfamiliarity. I am one of those persons who begin life by exclaiming they've "never seen anything like this before" and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.
— Siegfried Sassoon
I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word.
— Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
Life is a sacred wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it's good to start over
— R.J. Palacio
A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden’s mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.
— Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind
— Wayne Dyer
The wonder of life is infinite, yet most fail to comprehend this.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
We are giving you a new service in Dubai, we call it Wonder Bus. In this bus, everyone can get preview of this nice sea & land adventure in Dubai.
— Wonder Bus
You are always surrounded by wonder, whether you realise this or not.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “How many robots can you afford?” will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes, and let's go home.
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
The world is such a wonderful place to wander throughWhen you've got someone you love to wander along with you
— Man on the man,The friendly World
Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.
— R.J. Palacio, ワンダー
Have you ever dreamed of something so wonderful, you woke up only to find yourself crying because you wanted to dream about it forever?
— Nichole Nesbitt-Brewer, The Journey Of Faith
I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long term very high altitude sickness could have been without the initial adaptation to the lower altitude.
— Steven Magee
I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.
— Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver