Quote by Susanna Clarke

“I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and…

— S.G. Holster

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)”

— Helen Boswell

“What started out as wishful thinking, angel given signs from above, was now just an imprisoned lot of dirty, broken pieces that used to…

— Elizabeth Lee

“He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had…

— Thomas Hardy

“She looked like an angel who had decided that it was far more amusing to be wicked than to be good.”

— Suzanne Harper

“He was a handsome man, not in the way of mercurial Cesare or the false angel, Morozzi, but with a calm steadiness that sat…

— Sara Poole

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him…

— Mary Shelley

“How much more satisfying to seduce an angel than a villain?”

— Cate Tiernan

“True happiness is impossible without privacy. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he wanted the privacy denied to an angel.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Her angel didn’t look at all like she’d expected. He was no benevolent creature with long, flowing robes and a bland, peaceful smile. Instead…

— Rosalie Lario

“He had an angel's face, but his eyes were so hypnotically tarnished, a mirror of my own pain in their depths.”

— R.K. Lilley