I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literatu….

Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautif….

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive..

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint..

One is but a shade of the other..

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to….

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow….

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out..

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together..

I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for ….

Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear..

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land..

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline..

People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research..

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happ….

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for i….

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning..

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel ….

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies..

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and ….

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I w….