Danielle Trussoni Quotes

#1. Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

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#2. Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

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#3. Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

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#4. If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

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#5. I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

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#6. Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness.

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#7. Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

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#8. People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

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#9. I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

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#10. I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

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#11. If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

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#12. I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

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#13. Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

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#14. Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared."
"We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

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#15.
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.
Angelology pg. 32

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#16. Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

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#17. But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

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#18. I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

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#19. Angela believed that the Nephilistic immune system reacted negatively to human-made chemicals and pollutants. She believed that these unnatural elements worked to break down the cellular structures inherited from the Watchers, creating a form of deadly cancer.

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#20. One is but a shade of the other.

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#21. One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

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#22. Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

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#23. At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.

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