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Quotes About Flames

I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.
~ Cassandra Clare
Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
~ Giuseppe di Lampedusa
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
~ Black Elk
Love is infinite flames of light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
~ Amin Maalouf
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
~ Matthew Simpson
Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow.
~ Terry Real
On the trees surrounding me, the leaves are just beginning their slow turn toward the colour of fire..
~ Nicholas Sparks
From her hiding place in the brush, a young girl watched, her eyes wide with curiosity. There was a burning smell coming from the pit where flames crackled, sending sparks shooting high. Odd shapes had been carved in the trunks of the circling trees. The
~ Nora Roberts
Backed by the hellish glare of flames, the doctor proclaimed, "Men in general need to accept their diminished status in the world." Against a backdrop of smoke and shouting, she added, "The impending war, for example, will be an excellent opportunity for them to earn the acclaim they crave.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Non fugis hinc praeceps, dum praecipitare potestas? Iam mare turbari trabibus, saevasque videbis conlucere faces, iam fervere litora flammis, si te his attigerit terris Aurora morantem.
~ Virgil
Yo me empecinaba en mi paraíso escogido: Un paraíso cuyos cielos tenían el color de las llamas infernales, pero con todo un paraiso
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first.
~ Larry Kane
Then think of fire, It's laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost as if to -mistakenly- rescue someone who left you years ago. It is so American, fire. So like us. It's desolation. And it's eventual, brief triumph.
~ Larry Levis
but she knew that something had shifted inside her sister, that she was balanced on a dangerous, high-up ledge. She sat very still, as if one wrong move might top Lydia off the edge, and Lydia blew out the flames with one quick puff.
~ Celeste Ng
It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.
~ Charles Burns
La mia immagine stava sulla soglia. Il mio doppio. In un mantello bianco. Una corona sulla testa. Per un breve istante. Quindi guizzarono le fiamme attraverso il legno della porta, e una calda nuvola di denso fumo soffocante invase la stanza".
~ Gustav Meyrink
One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
~ Paul de Man
She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.
~ Nicole Lyons
You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
~ Nikita Gill
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
~ Barbara Demick
Lared sat before the fire, watching the flames trying to escape up the chimney, always dying before they quite made it out. *
~ Orson Scott Card