Angel Roof Quotes

“The angels are survivors. They looked on as the glass was smashed, the walls whitewashed, the statues decapitated, the roods torn down, Destruction was nothing new to them, of course; they were born of it. Acorn to oak to angel, these were trees once. They had roots and branches, drank from the earth, knew the thistledown touch of the sky. Birds landed and nested in them, the wings of crows foreshadowing their own coming form. In time, they felt the kiss of the axe, the teeth of the saw, and they began to take shape, to become angelic.”
― Peter Ross, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church