The Angel's Cut Quotes

“He said, ‘Sooner or later one of Them is going to try to explain Himself to me. God—or Lucifer. But though there may be a reason why my wings were cut off, a reason for doing it, and for letting it be done, the reason is nothing compared to the act. The world of the act is a different one from the world of the reason.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“The day was so lovely that, to Flora, it seemed possible to leave only if it was impossible to stay. She tried to imagine leaving. She imagined that her body was asking her to leave. She”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Xas found himself saying, ‘There really isn’t any afterlife, is there?’ ‘Are you asking the Governor of God’s prison whether he actually”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Xas wouldn’t show Flora the fine print, because what all the old songs had to say was true—in Heaven there was no trouble”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Demons are the oppressed native people of Hell,’ Xas said. ‘Fallen angels are their colonial masters. Demons are low creatures, and impossible to like—but I do think they deserve something better.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Lucifer maintains that, like earth, Hell was there already, inhospitable and ugly, but a whole real world. He says he first went to Hell about the same time God started to store souls there—and that he took to going there to be alone with his thoughts.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“That’s Lucifer’s heresy—that God didn’t make the world, only found it. And that when He made angels it was an attempt to discover how people worked by copying them.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“4. God made angels. Angels are, broadly speaking, copies of humans, whom God did not make.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Four facts about angels. 1. Angels are indestructible. An angel can only be injured by another angel. 2. Angels are animals not spirits. (The separation of the spiritual and mundane, and the notion that angels are spirits, only dates back to the Lateran Council of 1215.) Angels are warm-blooded animals, but have no oesophagus, duodenum, stomach, small or large intestine, no anus, no need to eat, and no genitals. (Except for the one angel who is a copy of a particular human being—though since God added wings He might have considered subtracting other appendages as a matter of balance.)”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Four facts about angels. 1. Angels are indestructible. An angel can only be injured by another angel. 2. Angels are animals not spirits. (The separation of the spiritual and mundane, and the notion that angels are spirits, only dates back to the Lateran Council of 1215.) Angels are warm-blooded animals, but have no oesophagus, duodenum, stomach, small or large intestine, no anus, no need to eat, and no genitals. (Except for the one angel who is a copy of a particular human being—though since God added wings He might have considered subtracting other appendages as a matter of balance.) 3. Fallen angels are not demons. 4. God made angels. Angels are, broadly speaking, copies of humans, whom God did not make.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“I hold this happiness between me and You,’ and, if they were, then that was instinct too, the instinct humans must have, despite all their ideas about a just and loving God, to preserve themselves from that God’s unloving love of perfection, His exacting beneficence.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Then, for an instant, he was engulfed in the vivid patience, the impersonal benevolence, and the personal affection of his Father. He was reminded: ‘You followed Lucifer in order to follow his thinking.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut

“Xas explained. ‘To make your mark is to fall to your death, splashing some farmer’s field. He’s saying I take big risks to make my mark, to finally lose my game with gravity.”
― Elizabeth Knox, The Angel's Cut