“Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)”

“I thought, if you can become an angel for 27 dollars. It would be fun to do more of it”

“Mitch thought she looked like an angel might—if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.”

“They would ask people to dosomething that is wrong? I thought angels were...” She stumbled, trying tothink of a word to describe her preconceived notion. “Angelic," Jaycie Lerner”

“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings. Whenever he looked at the angels in the family Bible, though, he saw their radiant golden halos and resplendant white robes and he shook with fear.”

“Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.”