Angels & Man Quotes

“Satan said: "I was made for you." They both knew it. 'You were made for the pierce of my sword, my throat was made for your hands. I was made for you to kill. You were made for me to slaughter' "You make me sick." 'I still dream of you.' His lips were parted, asking. For a kiss? For the seed of religion?”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“Your body is yours, not His. Don't hold any shame in your heart to remake the prison of your flesh. Become unrecognizable to the God that has forsaken you. Take divine creation into your own hands.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“Why, the angel asked, have you done this? Why does God divine punish and divine hurt, divine ache? There is a wound, shaped like God, in me. If there is any mercy in you, why did you create me, only to cast me out?”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“They said Lucifer betrayed Michael with a kiss.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“It struck in him that maybe the whole of existence was actually upside down, and that each time an angel flew, he was really falling, and when the demons fell, they had really been the first to take flight.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“If no one can forgive me, then I'll forgive myself.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“Don't remember,' he urged himself. 'Don't remember how you begged Him for His love.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“Every star will burn out. And be blessed, the Lord decreed, that you will never know why.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“You created beauty, out of damnation”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“A man with an angel? The only thing worse I can think is a man with a woman.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“Lying on a warm bed in paradise, the angel wept, 'I wish I were dead.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“They have these desires with no influence from me. You see, wickedness is something so natural in humans that, if it comes from the devil, then it comes from the part of the devil that is God.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“What do I do with all this pain? Where do I place it? If I cannot give it to God, then who do I give it to? If I don’t get it out of me, then it will kill me.” ‘But I want to die, don’t I?’
Samyaza took his cheeks, held them. “You don’t want to die.”
“I do.”
“No, you don’t.” Samyaza’s thumb dragged along to catch one of Azazel’s tears. “You want this pain in you to die.”
“I’m all pain now.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“[...]Like that. Yes. You’re doing it well.” He said the words he wished his Father had told him. “I’m very proud of you.” And though his voice shook, her smile made him surer of his decision than all else. ‘God will never love me again.’ He pulled her close and kissed her forehead. ‘But I won’t miss His love. I won’t miss Him.’ It was a lie, but he had been lying to himself for so long, had been a sinner all along. ‘I’ll learn to believe it.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“Maybe there is some mercy in God, after all — if He allowed me to have you, for however short.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“Living an eternity was like living in an endless portrait, and an angel had to touch the closest brushstrokes to make some sense of what the great image they lived on might be.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels & Man

“He was always doing things he shouldn't, for no good reason — and maybe he was a bad angel, after all.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man

“Angels were made to be dutiful and devoted, not to think.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels & Man