“That's ironic, because I always thought you were the ugliest out of all the angels.” — Cynthia Hand Ironic Copy Share Image
“Are you any good at it?" "Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.” — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“Let go of everything else, he urges in my mind. Just be here. With me.” — Cynthia Hand Mind Copy Share Image
“Tonight I want us to simply be Christian and Clara, two college students on a date.” — Cynthia Hand Christian Copy Share Image
“Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you .” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I can't stop thinking about how much better she'd be for him than I am. But I also kind of want to… — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“Anything’s possible, I suppose. It’s a wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it's the terrible pain from my shouler or the weight of his emotional baggage, but I feel like… — Cynthia Hand Emotional baggage Copy Share Image
“oh, sixty years, give or take." "Sixty years." There i go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.” — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“One of them is probably Michael, I think. All I have to do to find my dad is go to church.” — Cynthia Hand Dad Copy Share Image
“Tucker: Is it okay to kiss you? Clara: What? Tucker: I won't get struck by lightning? Clara: (laughs) No lightning.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Your hair smells like wind, did you know that?" Yep, me and Tucker, smelling each other.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who… — Cynthia Hand Angel Copy Share Image
“Oh right. What about Wendy?" I ask "What about her?" "It's her birthday, too. I'm the worst friend ever. I should have… — Cynthia Hand Friend Copy Share Image
“You're a little bit of a show-off. First you get us out of hell. And then you defeat like the biggest, baddest… — Cynthia Hand Books Copy Share Image
“I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept,… — Cynthia Hand Books Copy Share Image
“But now...it's like when part of you stops hurting and suddenly you're yourself again, healthy and whole, and only then do you… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to… — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“Just so you know, this is the last time I ever trust you," I say. "But you're so cute all covered in… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom.… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Tucker snorts. "Sage is a fighter, it spreads over the land like wildfire, sucking up all the water, the nutrients in the… — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“You’re not . . . normal, Clara. You try to pretend you are. But you’re not. You talked to a grizzly bear, and it obeyed… — Cynthia Hand Disney cartoon Copy Share Image
“Well he should get over himself. He tried to get me burned at the stake in Brit History yesterday. Here I am… — Cynthia Hand Little girl Copy Share Image
“But then I think about what I’ve learned here in the last year, and I don’t mean in my classes, but what… — Cynthia Hand Bad weather Copy Share Image
“Well, well, well, what have we here?” he asks. My mouth falls open. Tucker leans in the window, grinning from ear to… — Cynthia Hand Brother Copy Share Image
“So did you really mean all that stuff you said when I was a dead man?" "Every word." "Could you say it… — Cynthia Hand Clara-gardner Copy Share Image
“The corner of his mouth lifts, and then I kiss him. Not so gently this time. His hand drops from my face… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“You do know we're officially the talk of the town," I say to Tucker. He might as well have taken a marker… — Cynthia Hand Love Copy Share Image
“I meant it, what I said in hell. You're my glory sword, you know that? My truth.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Is it okay to kiss you?” he asks. “What?” “I won’t get struck by lightning?” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“That's the hardest part," he says. "The absence of certainty.” — Cynthia Hand Certainty Copy Share Image
“I'm ready to stop saying goodbye to things. I'm going to start saying hello.” — Cynthia Hand Goodbye Copy Share Image
If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there? — Cynthia Hand Moon Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the prayers of angel-bloods count more than regular people's.” — Cynthia Hand Angel Copy Share Image
“I’m ready to stop saying good-bye to things. I’m going to start saying hello.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Because I'm like the opposite of Cinderella. My ball only starts after midnight.” — Cynthia Hand Humor Copy Share Image
