38 Quotes by Danielle Trussoni

One is but a shade of the other.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.