Fire
Quotes - It was a pleasure to burn
“Tradition
is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
―
Gustav Mahler
“Brigan
was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and
strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd
taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his
backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.
The
fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not
believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“It
was a pleasure to burn.
It
was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and
changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting
its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his
hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of
blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.
With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all
orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the
house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow
and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old
joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping
pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books
went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Can
he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To
love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
―
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane
Austen's Novel to Film
“Live
your life. It’s yours anyway.
Don’t
try too hard. It’s okay to lose.”
―
Bangtan Boys, Fire
“It’s
too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and
is deprived of the light
of a
heart ablaze.
The
day on which you are
without
passionate love
is
the most wasted day of your life.”
―
Omar Khayyam
“Fire
wants to burn
Water
wants to flow
Air
wants to rise
Earth
wants to bind
Chaos
wants to devour
Cal
wants to live”
―
Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial
“Between
us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take
on the wind.”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
“We
each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life.
like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it,
hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone
forever.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Fireheart,
her mother had called her.
Not
for her power. The name had never once been about her power.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash
“While
I was looking the other way your fire went out
Left
me with cinders to kick into dust
What
a waste of the wonder you were
In
my living fire I will keep your scorn and mine
In
my living fire I will keep your heartache and mine
At
the disgrace of a waste of a life”
―
Kristin Cashore, Fire
“The
Moth don't care when he sees The Flame.
He
might get burned, but he's in the game.
And
once he's in, he can't go back, he'll
Beat
his wings 'til he burns them black...
No,
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . .
The
Moth don't care if The Flame is real,
'Cause
Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal.
And
nothing fuels a good flirtation,
Like
Need and Anger and Desperation...
No,
The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . . ”
―
Aimee Mann
“Those
candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone,
they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they
were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of
destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
“in
the afterglow
of
an evening rain
i
lay down
in
the grass
and
think of you
my
body aches
like
an after-kiss
breaking
in soft fires
and
wildflowers
my
dear,
i
will always be
this
tender for you.”
―
Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
“Living
is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
―
Kristen Cashore, Fire
“I
often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility
whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for
destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not
burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire
out.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“I
don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with
handling it.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
“Fire
tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
―
Seneca
“Remember
what you must do
when
they undervalue you,
when
they think
your
softness is your weakness,
when
they treat your kindness
like
it is their advantage.
You
awaken
every
dragon,
every
wolf,
every
monster
that
sleeps inside of you
and
you remind them
what
hell looks like
when
it wears the skin
of a
gentle human.”
―
Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
“The
world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat
less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its
fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but
its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
―
Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
