From #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas

Angels can heal using water, but there are some interesting caveats. Here, a lesser angel of healing is faced with a "pre-prepubescent child with tired eyes and a deformed arm, much smaller than the other, leading to a hand seemingly melded shut and twisted awkwardly at the wrist."

And is unable to heal him...

> “He’s not hurt. I can only heal what’s broken.” “But he can only use one arm.”
> “That’s not brokenness.”
> The sister scoffed, except it was sad, frustrated, rather than mean. “He can’t do what the rest of us can.”
> “That doesn’t make him broken.”
> “I want him to live as easy as us.”
> “I’m sorry,”

Now, I found this quite interesting because it's a perspective on disability that I don't see portrayed in this sort of way very often.

Later, this angel tries thinking through what might happen if he tried to heal someone who's pregnant. The whole idea of pregnancy is new to the angels at this point, and it was interesting how he considered "Well, it can kill them, much like a disease or injury. But is that brokenness?"

I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts on the matter if you are willing to share given the small amount of context here.

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From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

> Anyone can be forgiven, according to him, according to God. For centuries, Satan had heard this sentiment and asked: why should anyone want God’s forgiveness? What made His forgiveness so special? The Lord is but a narcissist — because what good does it do to apologize to a distant God instead of those you’ve harmed? Why move to absolve yourself instead of making amends? This is pure narcissism, too, on the part of the sinner. The devil would know; he is the mother of vanity.

I just really liked the quote. And it's spoiler free!

With the amount of bondage in this book, I hope there's a trove of fanart in progress...

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> ‘To fulfill the prophecy of Revelation, you will have to sin. You may have to lie, to covet. How the angels have had to kill humans for God, you will have to commit some sin for the greater good.’

The Greater Good!

The cloaked council in Hot Fuzz likes to chime in whenever this phrase crosses my stream of perception.

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> ...Tell me one day that you will stop loving me. Oh I would do anything to make God stop loving me.

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> ‘Is it the devil that makes us evil or is it circumstance?’

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> I love you, he was saying, no one will ever hurt me like you have.

Leaving this totally out of context to avoid spoilers for #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas

If there's interest, I can do a couple of posts that collect specific things with some context to point out particular themes?

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> ‘I think that I love you biblically — with blood on my hands, lies in this body, and the need for you to give it all meaning.’

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From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas

> “I feel drunk,” <redacted> murmured against him, then shuddered. “Your mouth— When you were created, your lips must have been laced with liquor.”

Now I'm not an expert or anything, but if someone said that to me, I might begin to suspect they're flirting with me... :neofox_thinking:

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Zero context quote from #AngelsAndMan by #RafaelNicolas

> “A man with an angel? The only thing worse I can think of is a man with a woman.”

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Another quote from book 1 #AngelsBeforeMan to see if it piques interest. I've left out any surrounding context. I'll only tell you that single-quotes are thoughts and double quotes are speech.

> “Let me.” ‘Pray to this body, mold you into holy communion, cry your name like psalm.’ “Let me worship you.”

Oh, and probably that you can check the hashtags for more select quotes that I'll likely keep posting, and adding CWs as needed.

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From #AngelsAfterMan by #RafaelNicolas

Somewhere in Chapter 7. I wiped the surrounding context so this is spoiler-free. And hopefully someone else will find these two sentences as funny as I did.

> God cared little for punctuality.

> The Lord liked to live in waiting, edging.

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From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas

From Chapter 16.

Also quick note. Dialogue happens with double quotes, and thoughts happen in single quotes to distinguish the two.

> As he walked back to the Father, He said, “There is nothing more important than remaining clean. An angel that becomes impure becomes unworthy to live in paradise.”
> Lucifer stood by His side, unsure, not understanding. “Impure? What does it mean to be impure?” In his head, he cried, ‘Have I become impure? Have I become ruined?’
> “To not know impurity is to be pure,” the Lord replied simply. “Do not tremble, Lucifer. You have nothing to fear.”

As many of you might guess, this is very much echoing purity culture. The definition of what it even means to be impure is obfuscated. Which means it can simply be used to label anyone impure on a whim.

A little farther in the same chapter

> “You have my mercy.” But the Father didn’t tell him to stand. “And you have my love, Lucifer.”
> It took everything Lucifer had not to burst into tears of affection, even if his knees pressed onto prickling rocks. He thought, ‘It is good to bleed, right?’
> “All that I say comes from a place of love.” ‘Is love meant to pierce?’

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From #AngelsBeforeMan by #RafaelNicolas

> A star, somewhere, swelled before it burst into a massive storm of radiance. Watching it spin, Lucifer could only manage to ask, “Are you pleased with me, Father?” The Lord was silent still. “Please. All I wish is to be what you intended me to be.” But Lucifer couldn’t stomach the silence; his breathing picked up, pain swelling within him like that distant sun. He whispered, “Am I good enough?” He couldn’t fight the whites of his eyes flooding red as droplets began to trickle down onto his cheeks. “Do you love me?”

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