Claudia Gray Quotes

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.

The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?