Fire
Quotes - A book, too, can be a star
“If
you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could
mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could
mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much
you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst
odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going
to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone
with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight
to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
―
Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“A
book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out
into the expanding universe.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“Each
of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by
ourselves”
―
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
“They
say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats
you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the
wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night
like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop
running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say
that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“That
what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have
plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright
yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go
on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can
give me that.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“I
have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn
beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we
are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame
on!'"
Leo
snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death,
and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
“She
leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch
was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the
cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes
that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms
of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
“She's
mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“I
threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself
burn.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Keep
a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Fire
and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by
nature.”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
“Love,
like fire, goes out without fuel.”
―
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
“I
can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.”
―
Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
“Great!
He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“Everybody
has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of
man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a
connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and
dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the
universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always
right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad
forces working with them, against them, and within them.
PART
SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When
she awoke, the world was on fire.”
―
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
“I
am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with
clean blood
and
organized drawers.
I am
the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at
night when no one else is alive
or
awake
however
you choose to see it
and
I live in my own flames
sometimes
burning too bright and too wild
to
make things last
or
handle
myself
or anyone else
and
so I run.
run
run run
far
and wide
until
my bones ache and lungs split
and
it feels good.
Hear
that people? It feels good
because
I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and
I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine
“We
all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the
upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us
trapped, locked in it.”
―
Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“There
may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it,
and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
―
Vincent van Gogh
“I'd
thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could
help you fall asleep at night."
He
opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment,
his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. "But that
wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help
you sleep.”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“Well
my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color,
punk?”
―
Gerard Way
“There
is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like
folly, there is no torrent like greed.”
―
Siddharta Gautama
