“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
Source: Spirit Bound
“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Creep
Lyrics, Pablo Honey (1993)
Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) German painter
Franziska was of somewhat sentimental disposition. <br class="br">written text with brush, in her painting JHM no. 4175 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charlotte_Salomon#/media/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4175.jpg: in 'Life? or Theater..', p. 66 <br class="br">her mother committed suicide when Charlotte was still a young girl - as many in her family did, before or later <br class="br">Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?
“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer
Source: What Happened to Lani Garver
“When nature's happiest touch could add no more,
Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face.”
William Julius Mickle (1734–1788) British writer
Mary, Queen of Scots: an Elegy (1770)
William Wallace (1270–1305) Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Independence
Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297), as quoted in History of Scotland (1841) by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121
Context: We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.
“I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us.
I would like an abundance of peace.”
Brigit of Kildare (451–525) Irish abbess and saint
Prayer traditionally attributed to St. Brigit, as quoted in Prayers of the Saints: An Inspired Collection of Holy Wisdom (1996), by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, p. 77
Context: I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us.
I would like an abundance of peace.
I would like full vessels of charity.
I would like rich treasures of mercy.
I would like cheerfulness to preside over all.
I would like Jesus to be present.
I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us.
I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts.
I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me.
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.