Angel On My Shoulder Quotes

#1. The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and 'you are my friend.' They'd rather show through their actions what is inside. It is more difficult for these street kids to speak than to act.

Chi Cheng Huang

#2. I feel like I'm stuck in a bad movie, with a little devil sitting on one shoulder and an angel on the other. But the goddamn devil is twice the size and my angel is a fucking mute. Great, I have a fucking mute angel.

Vi Keeland

#3. Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

Katherine Paterson

#4. I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

Joshilyn Jackson

#5. In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

Allison Anders

#6. When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you.

Joan Anderson

#7. I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.

Pascal Mercier

#8. Good luck, man." Wraith clapped him on the shoulder. "For an angel, you don't suck." "Ditto. For a demon ... well, you do suck." "Because I'm half vampire?" "Sure," Reaver said. "Let's go with that.

Larissa Ione

#9. The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty

Sophia Nam

#10. The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent.
"It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

William Hazlitt

#12. An angel sat on one shoulder, a devil on the other. Both of them wore my face.

Michelle Hodkin

#13. Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour
caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy
are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.

Nadeem Aslam

#14. Cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.

Craig Johnson

#15. When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel.

Greg Iles

#16. Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Harry Segall

#17. Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. While you lay on your belly I kneaded the hard edges of your flight. You are a fallen angel but still as the angels are; body light as a dragonfly, great gold wings cut across the sun.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart.
I'm tracking your killers,he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

Christopher Paolini

#20. And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.

Josh Lanyon

#21. They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

David Almond

#22. The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left ...

Gena Showalter

#23. The migraine angel leaned hard on my shoulder and belched into my face.

Hilary Mantel

#24. It goes on top and breaks down,
It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#25. Piled on grief' referred to the iron the smith was beating, since (on his interpretation of the metaphor) the discovery of iron brought grief to men.

Anonymous

#26. I want you to tell me why you have a pair of broken angel wings on your shoulder. I want you to tell me why you cut your wrists and I want to know why and how you play and sing the way you do, but most of all I want you to tell me what I need to do to be a good enough man for you.

Christine Zolendz

#27. I'm glad to hear that what belongs to me can't be swayed by the pretty words of others.

Maya Banks