Ashes Quotes - Page 9

• The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

  Horace

  Fire, Hazards, Dangerous

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• We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dust, Should Have, Pockets

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• He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Morning, Heart, Gun

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.

  Anne Rice

  Hands, House, Littles

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• I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Real, Lying

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.82, Abbi Glines

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• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Clothes, Bed

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• Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Venture, Demon

  Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

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• True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fire, Tears, World

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Kami said, "I want you to go in there and vamp that receptionist." "What?" Ash said blankly. "You know," Kami said. "Dazzle her with your charms. Rock her world. Go on." [...] "What," Ash said, "all of us?" "Do you want to stand around trying to guess if she likes pretty boys or rough trade?" Jared asked, gesturing lazily from Ash to himself. "Excuse me, what did you just call yourself?" Ash demanded. "No, wait a second, I don't care. What did you just call me?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Boys, Rocks, Waiting

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• Four wings, two hearts, but only one soul. They connect in the middle, but are separated by a thin line of ash. Its what brings them together, yet rips their feathers apart. They can never truly be together as light and dark. Unless one makes the ultimate sacrifice. Blows out their candle, and joins the other in the dark. Or if the other dares to fly across the line and steals the others light And force them to cross over the line and join the darkness of life. Im not gone, princess. I will come back for you until you give in.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Rip, Princess, Heart

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

  David Levithan

  Heart, Leave Me Alone, Paper

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch you suffer. Tory: Why would you do that? He led her hand to his face so that she was touching his cheek as he stared at her. His eyes and the pain in them burned her soul deep. Ash: Because I don't feel broken when you look at me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.458, Hachette UK

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• You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hurt, Voice, Lows

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.349, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Blessing, Race

  Samuel Rutherford (1761). “Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen”, p.308

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• Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Mouths, Preservation

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• Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Save Me, Breaths

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.285, Macmillan

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• The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Cutting, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.12, Graphic Arts Books

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• As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Passion, Personality, Smoking

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• The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Sadness, Thinking

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• We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history.

  John E. Jones III

  Gay, Law, People

  "Pennsylvania's gay marriage ban struck down by federal judge" by Lauren Gambino, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Simi, why did Acheron send you here? (Astrid) To protect you from Thanatos so that your sisters don’t get all freaky and destroy the world. Or something like that. I don’t know why all of you fear the end of the world. It’s not so bad, really. At least then akri’s mama be free. Then she wouldn’t be so cranky at the Simi all the time. (Simi) Ash’s mother is still alive? (Zarek) Oh, akri get mad whenever I tell that. Bad Simi. I not talk anymore. I need food. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Mad, Needs

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• Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew." Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dad, Home, Son

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.300, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life Lesson, Past, Fire

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• That’s Ash’s baby. (Kyrian) Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Lucy

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• You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Badass, Bunnies

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