Danielle Trussoni quotes

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it. (Danielle Trussoni)

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

Danielle Trussoni

I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

Danielle Trussoni

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. Angelology pg. 32.

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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.

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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.

Danielle Trussoni

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.

Danielle Trussoni

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.

Danielle Trussoni

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

Danielle Trussoni

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.

Danielle Trussoni

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. (Danielle Trussoni)

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

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Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

Danielle Trussoni

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

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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.

Danielle Trussoni

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

Danielle Trussoni

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

Danielle Trussoni

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

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I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

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

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

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

Danielle Trussoni

If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

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

Danielle Trussoni

I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

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