“They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!”

“Though I were gifted with an angel's tongue,
And voice like that with which the prophets sung,
Yet if mild charity were not within,
'T were all an impious mockery and sin.”

Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825) American poet

“So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

“Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He's very pretty, and vampires like that. I can't say I mind either.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“I didn’t really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981) American actor, director, producer, and writer

“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

“The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

“Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift.
"No need," Char and I chimed together.
"Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

“You look like an angel,
Sleeping it off at a station.
Were you only passing through?”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer