#angels

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

#inspiration #truth #inspirational

Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#crave #fallen #ward #change

Violet: "You're an asshole." Onyx: "Thank you, it's something that took an eternity to perfect. ↗

— Jessica Shirvington

#demons #humor #ya #humor

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary. ↗

— Daniel McHugh

#epic-fantasy #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #magic #seraphinium

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos. ↗

— Melody Manful

#fantasy-fiction #guardian-angels #melody-manful #romance-novels #romance-novels

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

#isabelle-lightwood #maryse-lightwood #city-of-fallen-angels

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#believe #god #hereafter #i #i do

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ↗

— Lord Byron

#angels #desire #earth #fire #given

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional. ↗

— Jon Carroll

#being #beings #certain #created #famous

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #benches #blue #coming #i