“Gabriel: Whats the point of having power, if one cannot use it? Whats the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?”

“Gabriel drew the strength up his calves and thighs to spin himself in a dizzying turn. Most angels didnt take the time to train their legs, but Gabriel wasnt like most angels.”

“Gabriel smiled and his thumb grazed her cheek. She thought for a terrifying moment that he was going to kiss her”

“A flock of angels are coming to see me...or a gaggle? A herd? No, they arent animals. A legion... Thats the word.”

“He towered over the Queen with his wings fanned out. Azrael realized he was threatening her, like a peacock intimidating its adversary.”

“Perhaps to bring good into the world, she needed to mix a little evil in it first.”

“He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.""I'm only a kid!" I...”

“I'll never see Ivy alive again.But she's still everywhere. In every drop of bubbling swamp water. In every leaf hanging from every tree. In every speck of swamp mud. In every blade of grass. In eve...”

“If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”

“Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide”

“Heavens is here 'neath the mountain walls,In the song of the wind and the waterfalls,In the watchful stars that blanket the nightAnd the music of birds before the dawn light.Heaven is here in our m...”