Fire Quotes

You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.

~ Kristin Cashore

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

~ Kristin Cashore

Well. I always like it when you kiss me.Do you?You're good at it.Well, that's lucky, because I'll always be kissing you.

~ Kristin Cashore

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

~ Suzanne Collins

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

~ Jean Rhys

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

~ Kristin Cashore

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

~ Kristin Cashore

I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also great

~ Robert Frost

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

~ Charles Baudelaire

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

~ Janet Evanovich

Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned.

~ Meagan Spooner

A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

~ Sarah J. Maas

I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.

~ L.j. Smith

Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.

~ Jean Rhys

Burn, baby, burn,” she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice.I cleared my throat. “As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you’re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, I’d reallylike to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.

~ Jennifer Estep

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous promise of less than a three-day resurrection.

~ Norman Maclean

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Fire is bright and fire is clean.

~ Ray Bradbury

like our parents alwaystold us not to likefirefighters warn againstwe're playinggames and makingthe rules upas we go we'rematchingwarmth to warmthstarting fires burningwishes into ourskin we're hiddenholdingforbidden lightswe're childrenwhose fathers havenever taught nevertouchbut we're findingthese new flameswe smotherat the sound of footsteps.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

~ Robinson Jeffers

She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You could not help but be aware of the wild passage of blood on the other side of its wall, veins, capillaries, sweat glands, tiny factories in the throes of complicated manufacture. [He] looked at the eyes and, knowing how eyes worked, was astonished, not for the first time, at the infinite complexity of Creation, wondering how this thing, this instrument for seeing, could transmit so clearly its entreaty while at the same time—-Look, I am only an eye—-denying that it was doing anything of the sort.

~ Peter Carey

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

~ Laura Anne Gilman

If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”Fire, Kristin Cashore“If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.

~ Kristin Cashore

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

~ George R.r. Martin

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire.

~ Larry Correia

As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.

~ Jean Rhys

I drank in the scene around me. Some people were directing traffic, some were throwing buckets full of water on the flames (the whole bucket too, not just the contents), some were snapping photos and one guy, I recognized as a regular of the Black Opal, Scully, was clutching a stool and crying.It was like the bleacher seats at a Cubs game when the beer gets cut off...

~ Barbra Annino

A growing heat, like a million blazing suns all focused on me, lit my insides. It felt like I was being cooked in the Gabriella Roast Cooker, me spinning around-and-around to heat my flesh evenly. For some reason I was having trouble comprehending the sudden change in my revolving world as I swelled with a horrible, billowing fire.

~ Laura Kreitzer

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan on the oven in her flat. Apparently this happens all the time. The tenant in question is appearing as an extra -- playing one of the cooks.

~ Emma Thompson

everblaze: the unstoppable flame

~ Shannon Messenger

Who gave fire permission to burn?

~ Marty Rubin

Pressure knocks at my doorA clock ticks and demands its dueThe lava burns from the floorBut not in a game like it used to.So little time to figure it all outSo many distractions to prevent successI’m in a dark forest with no path or routeBut this internal fire knows no rest.

~ Justin Wetch

Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.“To hell with that!” he roared, this was no accidental side-effect of arriving – it was clear they were under attack by hostile aliens. “Fire! Shoot the crap outta them!

~ Christina Engela

She wouldn't ask. Didn't want to know what manner of thing might crawl toward a fire.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Fire does transform, but the fire within is always better than fire beneath!

~ Harrish Sairaman

If you don’t answer this door, I will do something drastic.”I frowned.“I can use the fire element, which means I can melt the insides of this lock,” he explained. “And I’m not that great at controlling fire. I’ll probably end up catching the door on fire.”“Whoa,” I muttered, swinging my legs off the bed.“And then the fire will spread to the walls and the next thing you know, the whole dorm is burning down. Roof on fire kind of shit and Marcus will get really pissed—

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Her heart did a backflip against her ribs. No, she told it. You do not fall for a necromancer whose orgasm sets the bed on fire.

~ Jasmine Silvera

Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I know! he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

~ Victoria Aveyard

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

~ Anthony T. Hincks