Angelfire Quotes
"You've got to stay focused on what's really important."
"Life is going to test you in ways it never has before."
"Don't let your future change the good person you are or make you forget who you are."
"I believe in you. Just don't forget to believe in yourself."
"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all."
"Pretending that it was just a dream or that I'm insane isn't going to help you. It'll only make things worse."
"You are the Preliator, the only mortal in the world with the power to fight them."
"Forget the scythewielding skeletons in long robes. This is real."
"You woke and entered the Grim on your own and killed the reaper."
"You’re at your most vulnerable, and this is when they’ll strike."
"Always permanent even when fate takes so much away."
"I’ve known you for a very long time. I can always tell when it’s you."
"Your power surges through me, and the creepy, spiderlike energy of the reaper heated my face like crackling fire."
"They eat you. They eat your flesh and your blood, and then they drag your soul to Hell."
"You taste good, Preliator," she snarled, giving her jaws a stretch. "I think I’ll have another bite."
"The reapers don’t like to be seen. They spend most of their time in the Grim, where they hide from human sight."
"The simplest tug in my chest sent flames bursting from the swords, as if they came alight by my will alone."
"You are a very strange girl," he said, stepping very close to me.
"You're weird, you know that? Way weirder than you think I am."
"I'm not going to destroy the warehouse with us in it," he said. "We'll need this place for a while, so I'll give you a taste."
"You're stronger than me, Ellie. I need to prove it to you."
"Keep fighting and don't stop! If you stop, you're dead!"
"You have that strength! If you want me to let you go, then force me to!"
"I'm afraid, Will," I confessed. "I scare myself."
"Trust me always to guard your back in battle. I will protect you."
"I read people just fine. I just don't have a thousand years of practice like you."
"I am so sick of you pulling this Batman shit on me!"
"Yes, that’s it. It is you. You’re my friend, Landon, one my best friends. You’re like a brother to me. I love you like a brother."
"Back within the Grim and out of my friends’ sight, I could see the reaper standing at the back of my lawn, waiting for me only a few feet away from where Landon lay unconscious."
"You get away from him," I growled as I called my swords into my hands. The blades exploded in flames of angelfire, and I braced myself."
"We meet again, Preliator!" the reaper said in a voice that shook the earth beneath me."
"But you defeated him this time," he said. "You injured him badly enough for him to take off. You made him retreat. That makes up for the moment you were afraid. Ellie, you need to understand that once you overcome your fear, you can defeat anything."
"Don’t worry about me, Ellie. I’m supposed to take the hits for you. Trust me."
"Every time you come back, you’re a little more human."
"You can defeat him," he said earnestly. "We’ll destroy him, and you can move past it."
"What is the Enshi? Death," Ragnuk sneered. "The death of everything. The harbinger of the End of Days."
"Calories heal my body, so I need a lot of them."
"You know very well how that happened. I know you don’t have access to that memory yet, but I don’t think it’s something I can just tell you."
"We’re trying to act normal, aren’t we? It’s not very normal for a young lady to pay for her own dinner."
"We don’t want them to become suspicious, do we?"
"I exist only to serve you and fight by your side. Whether that fighting is to preserve your life or to make sure you smile, that is what I am built to do."
"Drink the sun like wine, for when the Enshi awakens, the darkness will spare nothing in your world—not even your soul. It ends soon."
"Love doesn’t make you blind. You’re very, very aware of everything about the one you truly love, whether you know it from what your eyes tell you or your heart."
"It wasn’t your fault, and I think you handled it well. Sleep in tomorrow, okay?"
"I am immortal because I am not human, as I’ve told you. I live as long as the reapers because I am one, Ellie."
"I care how you feel. Don’t say it doesn’t matter."
"It’s a little hard to believe I can defeat Ragnuk when he keeps kicking my butt."
"I am devoted to you above all else, including my own life."
"It's weird that it doesn't hurt. In the fourth grade, Kate fell off the monkey bars and broke her arm. She cried so much. I break my bones and it just feels a little tingly after a moment or two."
"I think I might do that with mine. We need a couple beer bottles to go with them."
"Sometimes it gets a little intense and you don't think straight."
"My dad has blood in him. You say the weirdest things sometimes."
"I nodded like an idiot and let him lead me across the hall, back toward the archway we had all entered through."
"You are a beautiful girl," he said in a slightly surprised voice, his face so close that he didn’t need to speak up for me to hear him over the music.
"That’s a very, very old one." The backs of his fingers traced along my bare collarbone. I shivered.
"My dear," Cadan said, his voice as sensuous like wine, "I don’t intend to harm you."
"No matter how many times I tell you how sorry I am, it’ll never make up for all the times I’ve failed you and let you die."
"Love is a beautiful but terrible thing," he said. "You have to be careful with it. It can destroy you."
"I'm not a monster... But I am not human either."
"My humanity makes me strong! It gives me passion so I can keep on fighting, and my friends and family give me something worth fighting for!"
"Even when your power threatens to control you, it has never succeeded... you're still you."
"I want to live. I want to be myself and go to school, to college, to parties, to the movies, bowling, football games."
"If we're separated—if I lose you—I'll find you."
"Religion is based on faith. I don't need faith to know what I deal with every day."
"Protecting human souls is the duty of any angelic reaper. Protecting you is my duty."
"This is the scariest part of the night, but we'll make it through."
"Nothing is going to happen. We’re almost there, and we’re going to shove that damn box off the ship and it’ll be crushed to nothing before it even hits the bottom of the ocean."
"We need to get our weapons and fight. We aren’t at the trench yet."
"Snap out of it, Ellie! If you stay here, you will die and so will everyone else. You can’t let everyone die!"
"There’s my girl," he said, and touched my cheek.
"I’m going to enjoy killing you," she sneered. "And when you come back, I’ll enjoy killing you again."
"You’ve lost, Bastian! Geir is dead and the Enshi is at the bottom of the ocean!"
"The ship is sinking, and we need to get the hell off it."
"Life is going to test you in ways it never has before. Don’t let your future change the good person that you are or make you forget who you are."
"How do archangels behave? Would I have to stop swearing? Stop watching horror movies? What else would I have to give up, if I had to give up anything at all?"
"I’m just a girl with a few weird things about me."
"You’re not a monster. You are an angel, not me. My guardian angel."
"You have more strength in you than I’ve ever seen in anyone, and I don’t mean how hard you can hit. I mean the strength you have to keep doing this without giving up."
"I’ve found peace with you, Ellie, in between the fighting and the years when you aren’t with me. You’ve brought me peace."
"Every time you die, a little piece of me dies with you."
"You can’t love me, and I can’t love you either. You’re not mine to love."
"You’re my best friend, and I can’t take it if you’re going to shut me out like this."
"I’m not going to tell your father that you lied because, frankly, I’m quite sure he’d kill you."
"The rest of your choices are up to you. I hope to God you make the right ones."