"For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugge..."
- Nalini Singh
"Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael"
"You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away."
- Cassandra Clare
"I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall."
"Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real."
"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."
"The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. “We are no longer even, Elena. You’re now in debt.”“You can deduct i..."
"When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whol..."
- Mark Twain
"It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco consisted of Galatea’s apotheosis, wherein she is surrounded by mythical creatures. A..."
- Kelsey Brickl
"I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require m..."
- Ilona Andrews