Danielle Trussoni Quotations

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.

If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

One is but a shade of the other.