Unearthly Quotes

“Sam: "I always thought you were the most beautiful of all the Nephilim."
Meg: "That's ironic because I always thought you were the ugliest of all the angels.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“Dude. Hot Bozo. Best nickname ever.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“Turning something from an idea
into a reality
can make it seem smaller.
It changes from unearthly to earthly.

The imagination has no limits.
The physical world does.
The work exists in both.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so true. My heart knows right where to go.”
― Cynthia Hand, Radiant

“oh, sixty years, give or take."
"Sixty years." There i go, Clara the parrot. I belong on a pirate's shoulder.”
― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

“A silky rustling sound came from behind him.
He turned, and saw Helen standing there in a white dress made of thin, glimmering layers of silk trimmed with lace. The dress clung to her slender form, the skirts pulled back to outline her hips and cascading gently behind her. She pulled back a filmy white veil sewn with lace and seed pearls, and smiled at him. She was unearthly in her beauty, as light and delicate as a wash of rainbow through morning mist. He held a hand over his hammering heart, as if to keep it from leaping out of his chest.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“Dude. I'm just so out of it today. I just read and read and sulked and sulked all day. And then it was all fan girl of tucker and then, fuck u tucker”
― NARUTO4HOKAGE

“Then Chameroy spoke. 'You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much more complicated. Him, an invalid? No - a character from the tales of Hoffmann! Have you never taken the trouble to look at him carefully? That pallor of decay; the twitching of his bony hands, more Japanese than chrysanthemums; the arabesque profile; that vampiric emaciation - has all of that never given you cause to reflect? In spite of his supple body and his callow face Freneuse is a hundred thousand years old. That man has lived before, in ancient times under the reigns of Heliogabalus, Alexander IV and the last of the Valois. What am I saying? That man is Henri III himself. I have in my library an edition of Ronsard - a rare edition, bound in pigskin with metal trimmings - which contains a portrait of Henri engraved on vellum. One of these nights I will bring the volume here to show you, and you may judge for yourselves. Apart from the ruff, the doublet and the earrings, you would believe that you were looking at the Due de Freneuse. As far as I'm concerned, his presence here inevitably makes me ill - and so long as he is present, there is such an oppression, such a heaviness...”
― Jean Lorrain, Monsieur de Phocas

“Böylece aşıktım işte. O çılgınca, yemeyi unutturan, sersem gibi ortalıkta dolaştıran, bütün gece telefonda konuşturan, her sabah onu görmek için yataktan fırlamaya yol açan türden aşk. Yaz fırtına gibi geçerken, her gün onu sevdiğim başka bir yanını keşfediyordum.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“Time is a funny thing. Sometimes it crawls endlessly on. And other times it speeds up, the days zooming by. And sometimes time really does stop.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“No, this was no ordinary music, as transcendent as that might have been. Nor did it, despite its almost unearthly aspect, remove itself far from the world. It was alive, real, human.

And it was pain and beauty all at once.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers