Lauren Kate
- From the Book Rapture
Dee's eyes never left the Qayom Malak, even as she tossed Cam the towel draped over her shoulder. 'Oh it's far worse, Cam. Now you've got to clean. Polish the angels, especially their wings. Polish hen until they shine. We are going to need the moonlight to shine on them in precisely the right way.'.
Lauren Kate
- From the Book Rapture
His skin was pale, making the green of his eyes look like emeralds. There was sweat along his hairline and a small scratch near his left eye. His wing tips had stopped bleeding and had been bandaged with some kind of fancy gauze.
Lauren Kate
- From the Book Rapture
Then Daniel lifted her off the ground. They flew straight up. Out of the corners of her eyes, Luce saw Roland's marbled wings on the right, Annabelle and Arriane on the left. All the angels' wings were beating so fast and hard that they wove a pure blinding brightness, straight up out of the fire and into clear blue.
Lauren Kate
- From the Book Rapture
Quickly, she dipped a starshot into each one, holding the bottles as they boiled and steamed, letting the brown liquid inside turn to silver. Finally, she rose from the corner where she'd been crouched and was pleased to find a Chinese Porcelain tray that had somehow survived the battle.
Lauren Kate
- From the Book Rapture
In the space between Heaven and the Fall, deep in the unknowable distance, there was a moment when the glorious hum of Heaven disappeared and was replaced by a silence so profound that Daniel's soul strained to make out any noise.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- um idk what its called
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
