Quotes About The Fallen Angels

#1. Grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might have rejected fallen man, as he did the fallen angels. It

Jonathan Edwards

#2. I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

Wislawa Szymborska

#3. So" he asked.
She was stunned and amazed-and happier than she'd ever been before. It couldn't possibly be real, she thought-unless she spoke the truth aloud, with Daniel and the rest of the fallen angels there to witness.
"I'm Lucinda," she said. "I'm your angel.

Lauren Kate

#4. Birkin came with Hermione. She had a rapt, triumphant look, like the fallen angels restored, yet still subtly demoniacal, now she held Birkin by the arm. And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Helen Keller

#6. But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know
from experience
how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and ...

Graham Greene

#7. I tell you once and for all -
in front of the angel pictures
on the wall, that I am not a host
to load-bearing ghosts or heady
entities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen far
into the dense atmosphere of the living.

Kristen Henderson

#8. You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more.

Cassandra Clare

#9. We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Robert Ardrey

#10. You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Cassandra Clare

#12. No, I mean it. You don't look good."
"This from a guy who has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-

Cassandra Clare

#13. You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.

Cassandra Clare

#14. He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?

Cassandra Clare

#15. He moved closer to her. You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.

Elizabeth Morgan

#16. This lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

Lauren Kate

#17. I would want to spend it with you. Even if we had thousands of nights, I would want to spend every single one of them with you.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#18. He grinned when I didn't protest, and lowered his mouth toward mine. The first touch was just that - a touch. A teasing, tempting softness. I licked my lips and Patch's grin deepened.
"More?" he asked.
I curled my hands into his hair, pulling him closer. "More.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#19. It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

Jack Kerouac

#20. If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.

Cassandra Clare

#21. Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?"
He smiled. "What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold the
world in my arms?

Elizabeth Morgan

#22. Magnus loves you. He wouldn't love you if you were the sort of person who could abandon someone helpless

Cassandra Clare

#23. Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Cassandra Clare

#24. What he didn't know was how to beg for her forgiveness, and at that moment, her forgiveness was what he craved the most ... even more than he craved her blood.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#25. Duc?' The boy leaned against a twisted willow tree. 'Or bastard?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#26. Patch? Whatever happens, I love you. I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#27. Good organization," said Magnus. "I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family."
Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. "Did you sleep with him, too?"
Magnus's cat eyes widened. "Alexander!

Cassandra Clare

#28. But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.

Cassandra Clare

#29. There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

John Shelby Spong

#30. No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Cassandra Clare

#31. He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.

Cassandra Clare

#32. The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

Albert Einstein

#33. You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"
"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?

Cassandra Clare

#34. The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.

Basilea Schlink

#35. True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.

Anton Chekhov

#36. One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.

Cassandra Clare

#37. 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

#38. Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

Sabrina Jeffries

#39. Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all.

Cynthia Hand

#40. He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

Becca Fitzpatrick

#41. We want to fight."
"And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely.

Laura Kreitzer

#42. Welcome to Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar.

Michelle Hughes

#43. Why did you choose to save me?"
"I could not let you die." He placed the plate and glass on the kitchen counter.
"But you have let goodness knows how many people die. Why me?"
"You made me ... " He leaned against the counter and looked at her. "You made me ... feel.

Elizabeth Morgan

#44. Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

Cassandra Clare

#45. All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who'd just caught prey - which boded ill for Silverspires.

Aliette De Bodard

#46. We need the Fallen Legion," I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.
"And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in," Firen said dryly.
"That'll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand," I grumbled.

Laura Kreitzer

#47. I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer.
Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan.
"I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#48. Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?"
"It's my job."
"It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

Cassandra Clare

#49. The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#50. then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent?

Emily St. John Mandel

#51. You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met."
"That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

Cassandra Clare

#52. But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

Cassandra Clare

#53. I prefer the school of life.

Cassandra Clare

#54. If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#55. So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.

Cassandra Clare

#56. I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone into his pocket.
"I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

Cassandra Clare

#57. Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

Cassandra Clare

#58. If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ...

Tad Williams

#59. Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

Cassandra Clare

#60. You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

#61. You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.

Cassandra Clare

#62. This was the part she liked the last, the anticipation before the release of violence. Duringa fight nothing mattered but the fight itself, now she had to strugglw to keep her mind on the task at hand

Cassandra Clare

#63. Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

Billy Graham

#64. Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#65. He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell away. Pain was something he had never known before. But even worse than the physical affliction was the knowledge that he would forevermore be denied Heaven.

James Burnham

#66. My mind's a frightening place, the playland for fallen angels.

Katie McGarry

#67. What would you suggest?" one of the Italian officials asked.
"We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator," Joseph chimed in

Laura Kreitzer

#68. Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

Cassandra Clare

#69. At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

#70. Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say. And she [Isabelle] stalked off, back toward the bar. - City of Fallen Angels pg 188 hardcover

Cassandra Clare

#71. 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

#72. Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith")

Fitz-James O'Brien

#73. As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

Cassandra Clare

#74. This morn I awoke to the laments of fallen angels.

David Mitchell

#75. My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Walter Dean Myers

#76. Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. " When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, 'I'm the most elite warrior!' ' No, I'm the most elite warrior!' And today you're playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

Cassandra Clare

#77. And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

Lauren Kate

#78. The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines.
They had to.
Suckers.

J.R. Ward

#79. Fine," Kyle said. "I'm a werewolf. I'm not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. Have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?"
"I've heard of lupus," said Simon. "Isn't it a kind of disease?

Cassandra Clare

#80. It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

Ian Tregillis

#81. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

#82. Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

Jeaniene Frost

#83. When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.

Richard Kadrey

#84. Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.'
Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

Cassandra Clare

#85. I suggest you leave now, or you'll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting."
"Tie us down?"
"And gag you," Joseph cheerfully reminded them.

Laura Kreitzer

#86. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Cassandra Clare