Flames Quotes - Page 31

• You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

  Lloyd Jones

  Book, Eye, Breathing

  Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Fancy, Remember, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Real, Light

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• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Running, Wine, Fire

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• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Fire, Age

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• The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Morning, Moon

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Wind

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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• Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Hope, Fuel

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• Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Silly, House

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• Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Sky

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• Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

  Robin Hobb

  Memories, Night, Men

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• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  Burton Raffel

  Kings, Mean, Warrior

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stars, Light, Infinity

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• As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Mean, Suffering Of Others

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• but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.

  J.V. Hart

  Knowing, Decision, Consequence

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• 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 till 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

  Real, Games, Wings

  "Song: 'The Moth'". 2002.

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• What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wind, Personality, Teeth

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.85, Zondervan

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

  Bob Dylan

  Rip, Lying, Hate

  Song: My Back Pages

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• It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.

  John Fante

  Home, Winter, Night

  John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books

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• Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Light, Climbing

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• Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Passion, Sea

  Khalil Gibran, “Reason And Passion XV”

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• And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Water

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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