I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

— Audrey Niffenegger

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like…

— Edith Pearlman

“The day Flag went on tour forever we set the loading dock on fire. It was a special kind of concrete that burned. Rollins…

— Noah Wareness

Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for…

— Diana Gabaldon

“[Non-flammable? Challenge accepted.] [Alan], I texted, [arson is bad.] [It's in the spirit of academic inquiry! It's SCIENCE!] ['Science' is not a legal defense.]…

— KD Sarge

Fire setting is a form of expression. When words won't come and help is needed, fire brings people running.

— Carole Hanrahan

Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There have been…

— David X. Cohen

It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley…

— Laura Mullen

“One of my favorite dialogue pieces from Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think…

— R.T. Wolfe

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of…

— Sinclair Lewis

Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash…

— Rod Coronado

“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie,” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.”

— R.T. Wolfe