Danielle Trussoni Quotes

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.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

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

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.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

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

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

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

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

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.

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