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Quotes About Gabriel

Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice. Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us… Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is *right*.
~ Mike Carey
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nici un cuvânt nu a acoperit atât de vine ca "religie" deubla semantic? a lui "pharmakon": leac ?i otrav?.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
Uriel completed the prophecy. "If you choose to escape the city with your family, you will be protected by — well, yours truly." He could not pass up the opportunity for a touch of wit. Gabriel thought Uriel's wit lessened the urgency of their warning. He reiterated, "Do not accept the offer of kingship, Enoch. It will be deadly.
~ Brian Godawa
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
~ Jandy Nelson
December morning—sunny and exceedingly mild—might have regarded Gabriel
~ Thomas Hardy
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
~ Thomas Hardy
Henery Fray was the first to follow. Then Gabriel arose and went off with Jan Coggan, who had offered him a lodging. A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry. Flourishing his finger ominously he threw a gaze teeming with tidings just where his eye alighted by accident, which happened to be in Joseph Poorgrass's face.
~ Thomas Hardy
That's a handsome maid, he said to Oak. But she has her faults, said Gabriel. True, farmer. And the greatest of them is—well, what it is always. Beating people down? ay, 'tis so. O no. What, then? Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, Vanity.
~ Thomas Hardy
She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood. Gabriel sheared on, constrained and sad.
~ Thomas Hardy
this was her first return to Aracataca since her husband, Gabriel Eligio García, took her away to live in Barranquilla, leaving little "Gabito" in the care of his maternal grandparents,
~ Gerald Martin
Do not say it. Gabriel said with quiet menace. I said nothing. Lucian pointed out. You raised your eyebrow in that obnoxious way you have, Gabriel replied. You are in enough trouble with me without adding a sneer to your sins. She is not like the women I seem to recall from our youth. You did not know any women in our youth. Gabriel told him.
~ Christine Feehan
Because you think you've changed your lifestyle. You haven't, you know. In a day or two there will be a killing in this city and you will be on the hunt without a backward glance, without a single thought for me, just as you did before." Gabriel smiled at her, his teeth very white. "I will have no choice but to hunt the vampire, but I will not only look back, I will come back.
~ Christine Feehan
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
~ Christopher Moore
You are not the anointed one," John said to Joshua. "Gabriel came to my father. Your angel didn't even have a name.
~ Christopher Moore
Good night, Gabriel.' [Kaitlyn] said You jerk [Gabriel] widened his eyes. 'Don't you want to stay? It's a big bed.
~ L.J. Smith
It was only then that she realized, that she remembered, what the true danger in this was. Only then that she understood what Gabriel had meant by his warnings. Because she could feel what he felt. And along with the gratitude, the sheer satisfaction and relief, were other emotions. Appreciation, joy, wonder, and-oh, dear God, love.... Gabriel loved her.
~ L.J. Smith
Appena la porta si chiuse, Kait disse "Gabriel - come l'arcangelo?". Non riuscì a nascondere l'inflessione pesante di sarcasmo nella propria voce. La porta si riaprì, e Gabriel la soppesò con un lungo sguardo. Poi fece balenare un luminoso, allarmante sorriso. "Tu puoi entrare ogni volta che vuoi", disse.
~ L.J. Smith
Gabriel's green eyes sought Will. "It was demon pox, wasn't it? You know all about it, don't you? Aren't you some sort of expert?" "Well, you needn't act as if I invented it," said Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside. The door banged shut after him, and Thomas, sitting bolt upright, seized reins of the horses. A moment later the carriage had lurched forth into the night, leaving Gabriel staring, infuriated, after it.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.
~ Cassandra Clare
Gabriel: Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the shreds of your reputation. Will:Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact? Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not doing something wrong, as the case may be. Thomas! We must away at once to the mearest brothel! I seek scandal and low companionship.
~ Cassandra Clare
Earlier, in Hour 9, we examined Daniel 9 where the angel Gabriel told Daniel that from the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the King would be 173,880 days, sixty-nine weeks of 360-day years. If you do the arithmetic, you'll discover that the number of days between the Decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus on March 12, 445 B.C., to the triumphal entry which happened on April 6, A.D. 32, is precisely 173,880 days.
~ Chuck Missler